<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>It appears that my jubulations were a tad premature. The sound card lets you have six channels, but they are just three groups of the same stereo pair. Darn. Guess I will have to return the sbmp3 and get a hammerfall. Does anyone know if the hammerfall's adat optical can be understood by a 5.1 amplifier, or do I need to actually get an adat too?
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<BR>The good side is I still have a couple days to do ac3 testing before returning the unit.
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