{"id":467,"date":"2008-08-30T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:37","slug":"rip-creative-ddts-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/rip-creative-ddts-100\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Creative DDTS-100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad day.  Electronics from freshman year of college have finally given up the ghost&#8230; the Creative DDTS-100 was a pretty awesome little device:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-470\" title=\"DDTS-100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1514-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-469\" title=\"DDTS-100 Connections\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1513-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was essentially a multiplexer \/ digital multichannel decoder for powered speakers, such as what you would buy for a PC. Think mini-receiver with no amplifiers.\u00a0 Nate &amp; I used it in the dorms extensively to drive my Klipsch ProMedia 5.1&#8217;s, but it seems in the 2 years of transportation and storage since, the forces that be took it out on my poor DDTS-100:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-471\" title=\"Broken PCB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/img_1516-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the non-techies: Broken circuit boards are bad.\u00a0 Quite bad.<\/p>\n<p>For the techies: Apparently (based on the smell and general not-working-ness) this connected a couple hot traces to a ground plane, shorted the power circuits, and fried the heck out of a bunch of stuff :-\/<br \/>\nRest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad day. Electronics from freshman year of college have finally given up the ghost&#8230; the Creative DDTS-100 was a pretty awesome little device: It was essentially a multiplexer \/ digital multichannel decoder for powered speakers, such as what you would buy for a PC. Think mini-receiver with no amplifiers.\u00a0 Nate &amp; I used it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[36,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}