Last night I wrestled with plugging the cable into the digital speaker and the laptop unsuccessfully. However, after a fresh restart this morning, the sound was reproduced amazingly digitally. DTS Audio and MS Pro Audio do not work though probably due to the speaker limitation of which I don't mind. The sound quality has its weird echo but tweaking the settings might resole such a minor issue.Overall, I am very pleased with the simple connectivity without having had to pass through digital receiver.