On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:43:51 -0400, Paul
wrote:

You select digital audio in the Windows playback options.
The word "NVidia" might be involved (because we want the muxed
audio to be on the video cable, not RealTek digital via SPDIF or
TOSLink). You'd set the audio model to 2 channel audio,
because the monitor has two speakers, and you want the mixdown,
the head-model, to be used for any audio transforms. Your
source material could be 5.1, and you want the sub signal to
get mixed back into the two speakers, for a fuller sound.

Computer monitor speakers usually suck. And the time I've taken
to write this, is likely wasted. Your regular computer speakers,
hooked to the 1/8" Line Out and friends, likely sounds better,
because you can use ported amplified bookshelf speakers instead.
For example, Skybuck had a 500W amp setup, with ten channels
of Class D amplification, three channels in parallel driving the sub,
seven other channels for the other speakers. Putting the 3W monitor
speakers to shame :-) My setup is quite a bit less than that.

NVida TOSLINK (and Alesis' involvement), the former possibly
superceding beyond 'head-model' and dual-channel mixdown, which
ubiquitously comes at least with inexpensive DAC converter modules for
analogue output (to broadcast streaming and televisions now often
equipped for TOSLINK). For comparative purposes by of course to
soundboards so equipped, as with ASUS and their XONAR line-up.
Although, certainly as a niche market, the DAC's consequent
DSP-algorithm, ancillary components provided, knows no bounds to the
"high-end fidelity" market, if not specialized engineering domain
rebuilding them, or a top-tier of reviews for all the best, most
expensive Coax DACs for equally high-end headphones. I'm merely
bi-amping, if in a fashion rather blending, at 500-watts combined
Class D and Class A/B. Yeppers, nothing cheap about Crown's
XL-(X)00(X) DriveCore series, for some, engineered to blow the socks
off a dance hall, except perhaps for the really decent price of mine
-- the lowest model among, otherwise, a ton crap that tends break far
too easily. A tradeoff, clearly, for upstage $10,000+ Thiel speakers
at obscene efficiency ratings for only the best low-wattage tubed
amps, no less exorbitantly priced. Yet still, at its lowest
denominator of mid/side band stereo imaging, "hybridization for Head
Modeling" for a (hm, decent) DAC, or DAC-s, (in a 1/4-plugged
mixer-unit -- dismissing completely chained DSP intermediary
signal-module software processing -- overall, being then quite up to
and what comes beyond;- "hard amping" was never so spectacular as
compared to and no less uniquely capable of augmenting a latter half
of 20th. c. audio technology that was built to last. (Just without
much personal empathy for Dolby iterations since, though.)