USB Sound Blaster Card From Creative – Laptop Enthusiast Rejoice
Creative Labs just came out with a hot little box for 5.1 digital surround sound for any laptop or PC. What Creative did with this new Sound Blaster is rather than make a card out of it, the Sound Blaster is a USB based external device. The X-Fi, as they call it, operates over a USB interface and will provide full cinematic digital surround sound in hi-fidelity with a 1 second connection.- Supports USB 2.0 for high quality 5.1 audio
- USB bus-powered
- Gold plated RCA front outputs and mini-jack surround outputs for maximum fidelity
- Optical Output for connectivity to surround sound systems
- 24-bit Playback and Recording ADC, DAC
- X-Fi audio enhancement technology
- Easily accessible Headphone out and Mic In for connecting headsets
- Convenient Volume Control with push to mute feature
- Line-in monitoring
- Host-based EAX advanced HD 4.0 and OpenAL support
- Creative Alchemy software that restores DS3D Games’ 3D audio in Windows Vista
Tags: Audio, creative labs, usb sound blaster
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