Enhancing Your 

The Sound Blaster Live! card alone will most undoubtedly give you endless hours of listening 

pleasure. To further enhance your SB Live! experience, there are several upgrade options 

Sound Blaster Live! 

(available separately). The following information and diagrams on the next few pages show how 

Experience

you can connect these options to your SB Live! card.

Playing Games and Music, 

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With FourPointSurround Digital speakers from Cambridge SoundWorks, you can experience 

and Watching Movies

crystal clear gaming sequences or music from the Digital DIN connection. If you want an even 

more immersive surround experience while watching movies, get the Playworks DTT3500 

5.1 Digital speakers. A minijack to DIN cable is bundled with the speaker set for this 

connection.

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Alternatively, you can also connect an analog 5.1 channel speaker system (such as the 

DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT2200 speakers from Cambridge SoundWorks) or even your 6 

channel home theatre speaker system. Besides the Front and Rear outputs, the SB Live! card 

has an Analog/Digital Out jack which allows you to connect to your Centre & Subwoofer 

channels.

For instructions on how to switch between the analog and digital modes of the Digital/Analog 

jack, see  Switching between analog and digital output modes  on page 3 4

Watching DVD Movies or 

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To watch DVD movies on your PC, why not get Creative's PC DVD kit which comes with a 

Playing DVD Games

PC DVD drive and Encore MPEG2 decoder card? You can connect your Encore Dxr2, Dxr3 

or MPEG2 decoder card to an external Dolby Digital (AC 3) decoder such as the DeskTop 

Theater speaker systems. In this case, disconnect the audio card's Aux In connector from the 

decoder card's Audio Out connector. However, if an external Dolby Digital (AC 3) decoder 

speaker system is not available, this connection is necessary.

*  Information continues on page 1 9.

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