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mbox from digidesign...help?

I would like to have s/pdif ins and outs on my computer that has none via USB so I went down to the local pro audio place and they sold me something called an M Box...I hooked it all up and the audio from my computer does not play through it...it comes with protools software and I am beginning to think that I bought the wrong box. I want to be able to play music in itunes and have a digital output.
Any suggestions?
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rsbeck
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I recently bought something similar called an M-Audio USB Audiophile DAC. I
had to turn my computer off, connect the device to the USB output. Then boot the computer back up. Then I had to go to preferences -- sound -- output -- and select the M-Audio device so the music would play through the USB instead of the headphone jack or the internal speakers. Then, I had to go to the general preferences and click on the device's logo and select the output I wanted, which was ANALOGUE OUT and "24 Bit." I clicked the checks OUT of all other boxes. Then RESTART the computer. Try that.
rsbeck
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Here's a page that explains how to set up your mbox....

http://www.transom.org/tools/editing_mixing/200212.mbox.towne.html

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rsbeck
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Tom -- what do you consider the cleanest USB or Firewire DAC interface?
rsbeck
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I have the M-Audio USB Audiophile. It sounds good and is an improvement over using the headphone out, but I am always looking for improvement. I'm curious about the Apogee Mini-Dac, or other ways to take a digital feed from my computer and convert it to analogue.
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