Hmm....so you're saying I should use my Soundstorm over the Audigy 2, swank?
How does the quality compare between the two?
At this point it seems like I would eventually like to get an X-Fi, but I'm a slight bit confused as to what exactly I'll lose in terms of future expandability with the loss of the DDL encoding. In the future I might get more speakers so that I'll have a 5.1 system, and in that case I think I would still be relying on having a 5.1 source (eg, a DVD with it) to get the full use of my system because of the Platinum's functionality being limited to a passthrough.
To sum things up, for the time being, should I use the DDL on my soundstorm exclusively, and hook the headphones up to the reciever whenever I need them? Would this (because of the DDL being there) allow me to listen to everything in 5.1 Dolby in the case that I get more speakers later on down the road?
Or should I stick with the digital out on the Audigy 2, buy a 3.5mm to RCA adapter, and input to the reciever through that?
I have also heard that I can use a standard 3.5mm Stereo > L/R RCA splitter, and just plug in my RCA cable to the mono(white or left) channel on the splitter and the Digital Coax input on my reciever?
Once again, tremendous thanks for everyone's help and input. I greatly appreciate it
p.s. one last thing, since I'm using the 170SEs without a sub, I should set the reciever settings to Large speakers and no sub, correct? Is there anything else I should do on that aside from fiddling with the eq and selecting the correct input? I have a Panasonic XR55