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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.
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Professional home studio with high-end music creation
tools, expanded multi I/O connectivity, and low-latency
ASIO™ support
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Stunning 24-bit multi-channel performance and 100dB SNR
for high-definition audio
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Innovative EAX® ADVANCED HD™ technology delivers
high-definition audio environments for ultra-realistic
gaming and enriched music effects
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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!
| Technical
Specifications |
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| 32-bit Professional
Quality Effects Engine |
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Creative's
Audigy™ patented effects processor |
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Support
for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, normalizer, pitch
shifter, or distortion across any audio source |
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Capable
of processing, mixing, and positioning audio streams using up to 131
available hardware channels |
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Full
32-bit digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain,
eliminating noise from the signal |
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Customizable
Plug-In Effects Architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded
from the Web via CreativeWare |
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| High-Definition
Audio Quality |
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Playback
of 64 audio channels, each with its own independent sample rate |
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24-bit
Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48kHz sample rate |
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24-bit
Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 48kHz to analog
5.1 speaker output |
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16-bit
recording with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1,
and 48kHz |
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Supports
Sony® / Philips® Digital Interface (SPDIF) format input signal of
up to 24-bit/96kHz quality |
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SPDIF
output up to 24-bit resolution at selectable sampling rate of 44.1,
48, or 96kHz |
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Low
latency multi-track recording with ASIO™ support |
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| EAX®, ADVANCED
HD™, Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology |
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Hardware
acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games |
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User-selectable
EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes simulating
various acoustic environments |
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Advanced
time-scaling |
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Audio
Cleanup |
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Upgradeable
3D audio architecture for future improvements |
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Dolby®
Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and
digital modes |
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Optimized,
user-selectable settings for two, four, or six speakers, headphones,
and external A/V amplifiers |
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Creative
Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS) technology places any monaural or stereo
source in a 360° audio space |
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| SB1394 Connectivity |
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High
speed connection to IEEE® 1394 enabled devices with up to 400Mbps
transfer rate |
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Hot-plug
support for ease of connecting or disconnecting external devices |
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Interconnection
of up to 63 devices for peer-to-peer communication |
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SB1394
Certification Program thoroughly tests and certifies participating
vendors' 1394-enabled devices with Sound Blaster Audigy for optimal
performance and ease of use |
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| Realistic Wave-Table
Synthesis |
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Creative's
Audigy music synthesis engine |
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64-voice
hardware polyphony with E-mu® Systems, Inc.'s patented 8-point interpolation
technology that reduces distortion to inaudible levels |
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Uses
SoundFont® technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets |
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Unlimited
sample size can be loaded into host memory for professional music
reproduction (limited to available system memory size) |
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Scalable
PCI wave-table synthesis architecture with multi-timbre capability |
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48
MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum
kits |
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| MIDI Interface
/ Joystick Port |
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Support
for analog and digital or DirectInput™ game devices |
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Support
for two simultaneous MIDI devices with Sound Blaster Audigy drive
(upgrade option) |
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| Sound Blaster Audigy
Gamer On-Board Connectors |
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Analog
/ Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer / 6-channel SPDIF Output) |
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Line
in |
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Microphone
in |
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Line
level out (Front) / Headphone out |
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Line
level out (Rear) |
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SB1394
port |
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Telephone
Answering Device in |
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Analog
CD Audio in |
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Digital
CD Audio in |
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Expansion
header to an external 15-pin MIDI / Joystick port |
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Internal
SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option) |
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Expansion
header to the Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option) |
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| Works with the
Following Standards |
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Windows®
98, 98SE, NT® 4.0, 2000, and Me |
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Sound
Blaster MIDI and General MIDI |
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Plug
and Play |
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Sound
Blaster PCI |
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EAX
ADVANCED HD |
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EAX |
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Microsoft®
DirectSound®, DirectSound3D™, and derivatives |
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PCI
2.1 compliant |
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AC
'97 compliant |
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Dolby®
DigitalDolby® Digital |
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ASIO™ |
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| Sound Blaster Audigy
Audio Performance |
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Signal-to-Noise
Ratio (A-Weighted) = 100 dB |
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Crosstalk
(Left/Right and vice versa) = -100 dB |
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Total
Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (A-Weighted) = 0.004 % |
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Frequency
Response at -3 dBr = <10 hz to 22 khz |
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Availability: In stock, ships within 24 hours.
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