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The FireWave is a device that is, essentially, an external FireWire
soundcard made by Griffin Technology as a third party accessory for Apple
Inc.'s line of personal computers.
FireWave uses the FireWire (IEEE 1394) port of the Mac as an audio output
to its Dolby Digital sound processing hardware, effectively acting as an
external soundcard.
Griffin Technology's product website explains that FireWave uses the Dolby
processors to allow the user to connect a 5.1 surround sound system.
Speakers are then connected directly to FireWave's speaker terminals. Many
different sound setups and configurations are possible, using a combination
of Griffin's included FireWave software and Apple's "Audio MIDI Setup"
utility.
Technical FireWave has six output channels through three 1/8? (3.5mm)
stereo mini-jacks: Left/Right, Center/Subwoofer and Right Surround/Left
Surround. There is also a passthrough FireWire port to allow for chaining
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