R E V I E W E R ’ S G U I D E
Use a 1⁄8” to RCA cable to connect with speakers or receivers outfitted with RCA jacks. The white connector (top) connects to the first listed channel, the red jack to the second. For example, with the orange Center/Subwoofer jack, the white jack goes to the Center speaker, the red to the Subwoofer.
Shown: Radio Shack Part #42-2550. Note: higher quality cables yield better sound quality.
Software Installation
The User Guide provides detailed information, including screen shots, about in- stalling the software drivers on the various versions of the Windows and Mac OS operating systems. For your convenience, here are the appropriate User Guide page references:
Windows XP | Page 5 |
Windows 2000 | 7 |
Windows Me | 9 |
Mac OS 9 | 10 |
Mac OS X | 11 |
M-Audio continuously improves the quality and feature set of its driver software. We recommend that you download the latest Revolution 7.1 driver software for your operating system from:
www.m-audio.com/driversearch.php.
New features have been added, and existing ones enhanced.
Surround Sound Formats
From simple stereo to 8-channel surround, a variety of sound formats are found on DVDs. More detailed information can be found on pages 14–16 of the User’s Guide. The standard speaker configurations, listed in the following chart, are used to play the most common audio formats. Note that not every encoded format has a separate encoded channel for each speaker. For example, a true 2.1 speaker configu- ration plays back a stereo source, but relies on bass management to route bass fre- quencies to the subwoofer, creating the third discrete audio channel. Similarly, the extra signal for the two surround speakers in a Pro Logic or 7.1 (Dolby Digital EX) format is actually encoded into other channels and subsequently broken out by a decoder.
