Anyone know a newsgroup for sound related issues. There is something wrong
with my newsgroups server and I can't search for any.

I might just as well tell you guys my problem now, you never know. I have a
Altec Lansing ADA-880 speaker set and a SoundBlaster 512. I got them them
with my Dell system and I have become suspecious on the regards of their
true surround sound capibilities. I normally have the two smaller rear
speakers plugged in the two bigger front ones which should give me a virtual
surround sound effect. There is a dobly surround button on my speakers and
remote control that should turn dobly surround on, but when I turn it on I
just get a distorted sound. When I go to Liveware 3 and test the speakers I
only hear "front left and front right" but never left rear or right rear no
matter how I play with them, even if I put the two smaller speakers on their
two little stands. I can get the rear channel by plugging my speaker set in
another output plug but when i do i only the rear right and rear left when
i test the speakers. In my sound card there are two outputs for the
speakers, one of the holes for it is green and the other i can't remember.
Does this mean that to have surround sound the front and rear speakers need
to be plugged into two different channels? If this is so can I just buy a
another set of stereo speakers and plug them in the rear channel and keep
this essiting set in plugged in the front channel to get surround sound?

A friend of mine told me that the surround sound only works when using the
digital output which is used for DVDs which I don't have, so did i get
ripped off from Dell when they said that I the ADA-880 was a true surround
sound speaker system? That's makes me feel pretty bad when in the past 3
years we have spent about 13,000 dollars in all on dell desktops and
laptops.