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Interface: USB 2.0Brand: Creative Labs
Condition: NewManufacturer: Creative Technology
Enclosure Type: ExternalCompatibility: PC
Interface Type: PCISound Output Mode: 5.1 channel surround





New Sound blaster Audigy Platinum EX EAX HD 3D PC Audio Card



Refurbished Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eXSTOCK PHOTO

Sound Blaster® Audigy™ Platinum eX is the professional home studio solution that opens up a whole new world of unprecedented high-definition audio with the flexibility of an external drive. You'll experience incredible audio clarity with 24-bit, multi-channel, 5.1 sound and stunning 100dB SNR. The increased power of the Audigy chip enables EAX® ADVANCED HD™ to deliver a host of innovative, high-definition audio effects with next-generation, interactive, 3D audio for gaming and sophisticated effects for music. The external Audigy drive has the most comprehensive connectors for analog or digital devices, including professional audio gear, home-stereo receivers, Optical DACs, MIDI devices, and DV Camcorders. You'll also have the advantage of high-capacity connectivity to SB1394™ qualified devices like DV Camcorders, the future SB1394 NOMAD® Jukebox, external hard drives, and high-speed CD-RWs.

Professional home studio with high-end music creation tools, expanded multi I/O connectivity, and low-latency ASIO™ support
Stunning 24-bit multi-channel performance and 100dB SNR for high-definition audio
Innovative EAX® ADVANCED HD™ technology delivers high-definition audio environments for ultra-realistic gaming and enriched music effects
Fully-integrated SB1394™ (IEEE® 1394 compliant) ensures optimum performance for qualified products like DV Camcorders, digital audio players, external hard drives, high-speed CD-RWs, and home entertainment equipment

For professional home studio entertainment with high-definition audio quality, get Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX!

Features and Benefits

Games
Taking advantage of 4x the processing power of the Audigy chip, Creative delivers the next innovative audio standard for PC gaming.

EAX Advanced HD
Taking Gaming to New Heights

EAX Advance HD offers dramatically increased 3D audio performance and functionality and delivers superior audio fidelity and sophisticated reverb effects for high-definition audio environments in games.
Multi-Environment™ - Enjoy up to four simultaneous audio environments in real time.
Environment Morphing™ - Experience a natural audio transition from one environment to another with real-time morphing of each audio environment's characteristics.
Environment Panning™ - Hear the 3D spatialization and localization of an upcoming or distant environment
Environment Reflections™ - Enjoy the real world phenomenon of sound bouncing off of various surfaces and returning to the listener in 3D.
Environment Filtering™ - Marvel at the accurate simulation of sound of both outdoor and indoor environments with both low and high-pass audio filters.
Extreme Effects - By utilizing advanced parameters, intricate modulation settings can be applied to delay lines for creating "extreme" effects, surpassing the performance of many studio reverb processors

3D Gaming Audio Accuracy
The most accurate 3D audio available

Advanced 3D Audio - Highly optimized for Sound Blaster Audigy, the new 3D audio engine improves 3D sound imaging in both multi-speaker systems and headphones, allowing you to find and frag your opponents quickly.

High-Speed Peer-to-Peer Gaming

SB1394 Connectivity - Create an intense multi-player gaming environment with easy SB1394 PC to PC connectivity and low-latency gameplay performance beyond LAN gaming. For the ultimate frag fest, use the power and versatility of SB1394 to connect up to 64 PCs using Sound Blaster Audigy sound cards.

Music
Using the power of Audigy, Creative delivers unsurpassed clarity for all of your music needs. With Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum, digital music playback, enhancement, customization, and back up reach new levels.

Music Enhancement
Rip, Organize, Burn

Creative PlayCenter™ 3 - Your personal digital music center on the PC! Rip MP3 and WMA files with the included 320 Kbps encoder for up to 9X encoding acceleration. Burn your own audio CDs from digital music libraries, create playlists, as well as organize and customize your entire digital audio collection. Also, experience 5.1 Dolby Digital (AC-3) music with the included samples.

Music Customization
EAX ADVANCED HD Customized Playback

Audio Cleanup - Click Removal removes "pops" when listening to digital audio content or recordings. Noise Reduction reduces "hiss" and scratches from old tapes or LP recordings for enhanced audio playback.
Time Scaling - Speed up or slow down digital music playback without changing the pitch or audio quality.
EAX ADVANCED HD Audio Effects - Select from a wide range of sophisticated audio presets as well as Special Effects for an enriched music experience.
DREAM - Create enhanced, "club-like" surround sound from any stereo source by redirecting the path of a specific frequency range.

SB1394
High-Speed, High-Capacity Digital Audio Transfer

Maximum compatibility - Use your Sound Blaster Platinum eX with qualified devices like the future SB1394 NOMAD® Jukebox, external CD-RW drives, and other SB1394 qualified peripherals.

Core Technologies

High-Definition Audio Quality Beyond Home Theater
Achieve a new level of clarity and audio quality for your home theater.

24-bit / 100dB SNR - Experience high-definition audio quality surpassing high-end home theater receivers.
Dolby® Digital Decoding - Enjoy true 5.1 multi-channel playback in music, games, and movies with on-board Dolby Digital decoding capabilities. No need for a separate decoder!
Wireless Remote Control - Conveniently control your PC home theater entertainment with the easy-to-use remote control and software application.

Audigy ADVANCED HD - High-Definition Audio Architecture
Creative, the worldwide leader in PC audio, introduces Audigy ADVANCED HD - High-Definition Audio Architecture. Comprised of four revolutionary components, the Audigy audio architecture is designed to dramatically improve your digital audio experience:

Audigy Input Module - a customized CODEC designed to process, playback, and record multiple analog sources simultaneously.
EAX ADVANCED HD Technology Core - incorporates the real time effects processing capabilities of EAX ADVANCED HD, along with an optimized driver designed for low-latency ASIO™ support, on-board Dolby Digital decoding, DirectSound®, DirectSound3D™, and OpenAL™ acceleration.
Audigy Processing Module - enables real-time multi-processing of up to four environments simultaneously. The high performance 32-bit sound engine with a 64-channel mixer is optimized for complex digital audio signal mixing and processing.
Audigy Output Module - uses high quality, multi-channel 24-bit/96kHz DACs and ensures stunning 100dB SNR audio quality playback while the 32-bit effects engine provides crystal-clear audio resolution.


EAX ADVANCED HD Audio Technology
EAX ADVANCED HD brings a new level of performance, power and flexibility to PC audio for games and music. The all-new Audio Library dramatically improves audio acoustics with new features such as Multi-Environment™ technology. You can experience these innovative audio technologies only with the Sound Blaster Audigy family of high-definition audio cards. EAX ADVANCED HD delivers superior audio fidelity, vivid 3D sound, and rich environment effects for an unsurpassed digital entertainment experience. Be sure to visit www.eax.creative.com for our latest audio technology breakthroughs.

SB1394
SB1394 is Creative's IEEE 1394 compatible standard for high-speed (~400Mbps) digital audio transfer. It ensures optimum performance with SB1394 connectivity and IEEE 1394 equipped devices, providing a seamless user experience for transferring massive MP3 collections, DV editing, easy networking and more. It is supported by the SB1394 Certification Program, which is a comprehensive evaluation of devices for technical performance to ensure reliability and user convenience. For more information visit http://developer.creative.com/SB1394

 

Technical 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 conversion of analog inputs at 48kHz sample rate
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 48kHz to analog 5.1 speaker output
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) format input signal 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
Hardware acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games
User-selectable EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes simulating various acoustic environments
Advanced time-scaling
Audio Cleanup
Upgradeable 3D audio architecture for future improvements
Dolby® Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and digital modes
Optimized, user-selectable settings for two, four, or six speakers, headphones, and external A/V amplifiers
Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS) technology places any monaural or stereo source in a 360° audio space

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 E-mu® Systems, Inc.'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

Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX 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 MIDI / Joystick port

External Audigy Drive Front Panel Connectors
PCM SPDIF In and Out (RCA/Coaxial Jack)
Headphone Out (1/4" Stereo Jack with Volume control)
Line In 2 (1/4" Stereo Jack, shared with Microphone In 2)
Microphone In 2 (1/4" Jack with Gain control)
MIDI In (mini DIN)
MIDI Out (mini DIN)
Optical SPDIF In and Out
Stereo Auxiliary In (2 x RCA/Coaxial Jack)
Infra-red Receiver
SB1394 port

Works with the Following Standards
Windows® 98, 98SE, NT® 4.0, 2000, and Me
Sound Blaster MIDI and General MIDI
Plug and Play
Sound Blaster PCI
EAX ADVANCED HD
EAX
Microsoft® DirectSound®, DirectSound3D™, and derivatives
PCI 2.1 compliant
AC '97 compliant
Dolby® Digital
ASIO™

Sound Blaster Audigy Audio Performance
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted) = 100 dB
Crosstalk (Left/Right and vice versa) = -100 dB
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (A-Weighted) = 0.004 %
Frequency Response at -3 dBr = <10 Hz to 22 kHz

 

Bundled Software

Creative PlayCenter™ 3
The most comprehensive PC digital music center to rip MP3 or WMA files, burn your own audio CDs, create playlists, as well as organize and customize your entire digital audio collection.

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, 98SE, NT 4.0, 2000, or Me (when available, Windows XP and other future driver releases will be available in the support area.)
Available half-length PCI 2.1 compliant slot for Sound Blaster® Audigy™ card
Available adjacent slot for Joystick/MIDI bracket (optional)
Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately)
CD-ROM drive required for software installation

Additional Requirements
CPU: Genuine Intel® Pentium® II 350 MHz / MMX or AMD® 450 MHz / 3Dnow! for SB1394 applications or Games
SB1394: Works only on Windows 98 SE, 2000, or Me.
IEEE® 1394 cable (available separately). Certain features or functionality such as SB1394 application are not supported by Windows 98 First Edition. We recommend that you upgrade to Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) or later versions.
DVD: At least a 2nd generation DVD-ROM drive with these recommended soft-DVD players: Intervideo's WinDVD 2000 or CyberLink's PowerDVD 3.0 and above
Internet Radio: Requires at least a 56Kbps modem and an active Internet connection before running the application.




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