Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy With 1394 Firewire Port. Experience the best digital audio entertainment solution available with the ground-breaking audio technology of Sound Blaster Audigy! The innovative Audigy ADVANCED HD audio technology is designed to dramatically improve the digital audio experience. Listen to high quality music and MP3 or WMA files with 24-bit multi-channel performance, and 100dB SNR audio resolution. The Sound Blaster Audigy also provides a SB1394 connector (IEEE1394 compliant) and enables easy transferring, sharing, and backing-up data to qualified devices 30 times faster than with a USB port. Take advantage of the built in networking capabilities of Windows XP or Me for ultra high speed (400Mbps) peer-to-peer networking which is 4 times faster than Ethernet!
Specifications:
32-Bit Professional Quality Effects Engine:
Creative's Audigy patented effects processor;
Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, normalizer, pitch shifter, or
distortion across any audio source;
Capable of processing, mixing and positioning audio streams using up to 131
available hardware channels;
Full 32-bit digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain,
eliminating noise from the signal.
High Definition Audio Quality:
Playback of 64 audio channels, each with its own independent sample rate;
24-bit Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog conversion;
16-bit recording with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1 and 48kHz;
Supports Sony/Philips Digital Interface (SPDIF) input and output of up to 24-bit/96kHz
quality;
SPDIF output up to 24-bit resolution at selectable sampling rate of 44.1, 48 or 96kHz;
Low latency multi-track recording with ASIO support.
EAX ADVANCED HD, Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology:
Optimized user-selectable settings for headphones, two, four or six speakers
and external A/V amplifiers;
Dolby Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and digital modes;
Upgradeable 3D audio architecture for future improvements;
Hardware acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games;
Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) technology places any mono
or stereo source in a 360º audio space;
User-selectable EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes
simulating various acoustic environments;
Time-scaling;
Audio Clean-Up.
SB1394 Connectivity:
High speed connection to IEEE 1394-enabled devices with up to 400Mbps transfer rate;
Hot-plug support for ease of connecting or disconnecting external devices;
Interconnection of up to 63 devices for peer-to-peer communication;
SB1394 Certification Program thoroughly tests and certifies participating vendors' 1394-
enabled devices with Sound Blaster Audigy for optimal performance and ease of use.
Realistic Wave-Table Synthesis:
Creative's Audigy music synthesis engine;
64-voice hardware polyphony with Creative's patented 8-point interpolation technology
that reduces distortion to inaudible levels;
Uses SoundFont technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets;
Unlimited sample size can be loaded into host memory for professional music
reproduction (limited to available system memory size);
Scalable PCI wave-table synthesis architecture with multi-timbre capability;
48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kits.
MIDI Interface / Joystick Port:
Support for analog and digital or DirectInput game devices;
Support for two simultaneous MIDI devices with Sound Blaster Audigy Drive.
On-Board Connectors:
Analog / Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer / 6-channel SPDIF Output);
Line in;
Microphone in;
Line level out (Front) / Headphone out;
Line level out (Rear);
SB1394 port;
Telephone Answering Device in;
Analog CD Audio in;
Digital CD Audio in;
Expansion header to an external 15-pin Joystick / MIDI port;
Internal SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy Drive;
Expansion header to the Sound Blaster Audigy Drive.
Sound Blaster Audigy Audio Performance:
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted) = 100dB;
Crosstalk (Left/Right and vice versa) = -100dB;
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (A-Weighted) = 0.004 %;
Frequency Response at -3 dBr = <10 Hz to 22 kHz
Minimum System Requirements:
Genuine Intel Pentium 266MHz, AMD K6 300MHz or faster processor;
Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset;
64MB system RAM (128MB Highly Recommended);
600MB of free hard disk space;
Windows 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0, 2000, Me, or XP;
Available PCI 2.1 compliant slot for Sound Blaster Audigy card;
Available adjacent slot for the Audigy Extension bracket;
Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately);
This sound card is OEM.
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