[Audio_Empire[_2_]]

On Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:20:50 AM UTC-8, Dick Pierce wrote:
Audio_Empire wrote:

On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 8:23:55 PM UTC-8, W wrote:

And presumably using three separate RCA cables from the sound card would
preserve more of the 5.1 dimensionality than using a single optical audio

Please understand the optical cable is most likely NOT analog audio,
It's DIGITAL audio out,

I'd be willing to bet good money that you can replace
"most likely" with "most certainly" in the above
sentence without fear that you'd be wrong.

Sure, but I know little of the OP's situation. I don't know what sound
card he's using or even what brand/model of A/V receiver he's using
(or if even it IS an AV receiver). At one time several manufacturers
were using Toslink cables to carry audio. You are right that it's
probably almost assuredly digital, but not knowing for sure, I hedged
a bit.