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REVIEWER’S GUIDE
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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.