Quote: Originally Posted by
volum3rider 
The Alpine PXA-H701's are discontinued? That sucks. I have one and its awesome. I have a Creative sound card -> digital out -> Alpine processor -> Amps. Works great. Only downside is that you need a seperate controller or Alpine compatible headunit to control the processor.
I'm planning the same route for my setup & would greatly appreciate some advice.
Here's my planned setup - Audigy 2NX Optical out-->Audison Bit-1-->Amps-->3 Way Active front.
I understand that with Optical output, the Windows Volume control won't work & needs to be controlled by the processor. Is his true? Also will you be able to adjust the Master Volume control for GPS voices etc?
With Optical Out, does that audio source by-passed or is it still processsed by Windows mixer?
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