Creative Labs SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY SB1394

EAX ADVANCED HD SB0090

Features

High-Definition Gaming

• 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 games with on-board Dolby Digital decoding capabilities. No need for a separate decoder.
   

EAX Advanced HD

• 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 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

• 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.
   

CreativeWare™
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Core Technologies

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.

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
   
• Customizable Plug-In Effects Architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded from the Web via CreativeWare

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
   

MIDI Interface / Joystick Port

• Support for analog and digital or DirectInput™ game devices
   
• Support for two simultaneous MIDI devices with Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
   

Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ 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
   
• Internal SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
   
• Expansion header to the Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
   

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
   

Specifications are based on digital-to-analog audio playback (e.g. CDDA, WAV, MP3, Dolby Digital)

This item is refurbished but in great working condition!

For upgrades, ask or call 281-531-0990

Pictures are for illustration purposes only, Specifications subject to change without notice