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Features
Stunning Music Playback
- Sound Blaster Extigy will amaze you with
stunning digital audio fidelity from remarkable 24-bit/96kHz DACs at
100dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) that out performs many high-end
stereo receivers. Connect Sound Blaster Extigy to any quality analog
or digital speaker and hear your PC and notebook audio come alive.
Creative PlayCenter™ 3-- Your Personal
Digital Music Center
- With Creative PlayCenter 3 digital music
center, you will be in total control of your music library. With 9X
encoding acceleration, you can rip near CD-quality MP3 and WMA music
files (at 320 Kbps) in an instant! Organize, customize and even record
your favorite MP3 music to your CDRW for maximum listening enjoyment.
EAX ADVANCED HD Music Enhancements Tools
- Tired of noisy or dull recordings? Clean up
your favorite MP3 music and add environmental effects, including
‘club-like’ surround sound, to multi-channel and stereo music with
a host of EAX ADVANCED HD music tools. Simply click the EAX logo on
your PlayCenter 3 and mix and enhance your digital music like a pro.
Cinema-like surround sound with Dolby Digital®
5.1
- Turn your PC or notebook into a home-theater
system with Sound Blaster Extigy’s onboard Dolby Digital
multi-channel hardware. Plug in your surround sound speakers, like the
Creative Inspire™ 5.1 5300 series, and make your DVD movies and
gaming experience come alive. Sound Blaster Extigy even detects Dolby
Digital signals and your speaker configuration automatically for
instant surround sound immersion.
‘Surround’ Yourself with CMSS
- Music enthusiasts will love the new, one-touch
CMSS button that instantly up-mixes your favorite stereo recordings,
including MP3 and WMA music files, into 5.1 surround sound. If you
don’t currently own a set of 5.1 surround sound speakers, check out
the new Creative Inspire 5300 speakers for unsurpassed music and
home-theater entertainment.
Experience multi-channel Gameplay
- Once you connect your Sound Blaster Extigy to
your PC or notebook, you can utilize a wide variety of high-powered
EAX gaming effects, including- Occlusion, Obstruction, DirectSound 3D,
3D Positional Audio, and more.
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Specifications
High Definition Audio Quality
- High Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) exceeding
100dB using high linearity, low distortion 24-bit converters with
resolutions of up to 96kHz
- 24-bit / 96kHz Analog-to-Digital Converter
(ADC) for various analog inputs
- 24-bit / 96kHz Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
for 6-channel analog speaker and headphone output
- Independent 24-bit Analog-to-Digital
Converters for Line and Microphone input controls to provide recording
and mixing flexibility
- Supports Sony/Philips Digital Interface (SPDIF)
format input signal of up to 24-bit / 96kHz quality
Professional Quality DSP Engine
- Creative's high performance hardware Digital
Signal Processor for precise sampling rate conversion, CMSS®, 3D
audio algorithm processing, digital mixing or bass management; as well
as accurate Dolby Digital processing
- Host based 32-bit floating point effects
engine for professional quality real-time effects, processing, mixing
and positioning of audio streams
EAX® ADVANCED HD™ Advanced Audio and 3D
Audio Music Technologies
- Optimized user-selectable settings for
headphones, two, four or six speakers and external A/V amplifiers
- Improved Creative Multi-Speaker Surround™ (CMSS)
technology accurately places any mono or stereo source in a 360o audio
space
- Realistic EAX technology reverb, panning and
elevation effects bring life to your music and games
- Advanced Time Scaling feature allows variable
playback duration without altering pitch of original content
- Powerful Audio Clean-Up feature removes noise
and 'clicks' from playback of vinyl disks or cassette tape recordings
Dynamic Dolby Digital® Playback
- Dolby Laboratory approved hardware. Dolby
Digital decoding that does not rely on the host processor power for
decoding, resulting in a consistent Dolby Digital playback that does
not depend on the software or hardware DVD player
- Dedicated Dolby Digital (AC-3) hardware DSP
decoder with support of up to 24-bit I/O data format. Ability to
decode Dolby Digital streams from optical, coaxial SPDIF input or host
PC via USB connection
- Built-in 24-bit DACs provide optimum audio
resolution for Dolby Digital playback, making it the perfect partner
for DVD applications
- Optimum bass management feature allows
speakers of different sizes to be accommodated - be it Creative
Inspire™ range of 5.1 channel speakers or '6-channel ready' home A/V
amplifiers
- Provides mixing of Dolby Digital audio with
the real-time gameplay audio effects - a feature that a normal
consumer Dolby Digital A/V receiver is not capable of supporting
Advanced USB Features
- Optimized dynamic bandwidth allocation
architecture for audio data transfer via USB bus. This architecture
provides support of simultaneous playback of 5.1 multi-channel audio
together with a compressed Dolby Digital (AC-3) stream. This is ideal
for playing 3D games with Dolby Digital tracks
Works with the Following Standards
- Windows 98SE, 2000, Me and XP
- Sound Blaster MIDI and General MIDI
- Plug and Play™
- EAX ADVANCED HD for music
- EAX
- Microsoft DirectSound®, DirectSound®3D &
derivatives
- Dolby Digital
- USB 1.1
Sound Blaster Extigy Audio Performance
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted) >= 100dB
- Crosstalk (Left/Right and vice versa) = -97dB
- Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz
(A-Weighted) = 0.006 %
- Frequency Response at -3dBr = < 10Hz to
23kHz Specifications are based on digital-to-analog audio playback
(e.g. CDDA, WAV, MP3, Dolby Digital)
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