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™
CreativeWare for Sound Blaster Audigy provides you with the latest information
on your bundled software, feature upgrade options, and new software applications
that will heighten your digital audio experience. Visit www.creative.com for
more information on CreativeWare.
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
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