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... more
Features: Dolby Digital ready, EAX ADVANCED HD, EAX
Compliant Standards: Sound Blaster, AC '97, General MIDI, Dolby Digital 5.1, A3D 1.0
Manufacturer's product description
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. 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.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces:
1 x audio - line-in - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm - 1
1 x microphone - input - mini-phone mono 3.5 mm - 1
1 x audio - line-out/headphones - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm - 1
1 x audio - line-out (rear) - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm - 1
1 x audio - SPDIF input - 2 pin digital audio - 1
1 x audio - auxiliary - 4 pin MPC - 1
1 x audio - TAD - 4 pin MPC - 1
1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - 4 pin FireWire - 1
2 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - 6 pin FireWire - 2
1 x audio - 44 pin HD D-Sub (HD-44) - 1
1 x audio - SPDIF input - RCA - 1
1 x audio - SPDIF output - RCA - 1
1 x audio - SPDIF input - optical plug 3.5 mm - 1
1 x audio - SPDIF output - optical plug 3.5 mm - 1
1 x headphones - output - phone stereo 6.25 mm - 1
OS Required: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Min Processor Type: Intel Pentium 266 MHz
Min RAM Size: 64 MB
Min Hard Drive Space: 600 MB
Peripheral / Interface Devices: Mouse or compatible device, CD-ROM
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 1 year warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - parts and labor - 1 year - carry-in
Advantages Many features, high qaulity, overall good sound card! Disadvantages None that I can think of
...I got this card as a birthday present some months ago and a good present it wass too!
Where to start...
Well the SoundBlasterAudigyPlatinum has more features than you can shake a stick at! Just go to www.creative.com and look for it.
But from my experience here is what you get:
>Really high sound qaulity and support for analouge and digital 5.1 surround sound speaker rigs.
>A whole load of ports and sockets for pluging things into (It has a whole box of extra ports that firts in a drive bay)
>Some cool affects from echos to voice changers, I've had some great fun with those!
>Some very usefull bundeled software.
When I got everything out of the box there were so many bits I thaught "This is going to take ages" But a quick read through the quick start guide and everything was clear. I was installing it in a Compaq system...
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Advantages Great features, can pick one up very cheap now! Disadvantages if your after a card to record music... stay well away!
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· Line level out (Front / Rear / Centre / Subwoofer /Rear Centre)
· ADLINK 1 and ADLINK 2 connectors
· Power connector
· 15-pin MIDI / Joystick port extension header
External box:
· Line In 2 (1/4" Stereo Jack)
· Line In 3 (2xRCA Jack)
· Optical SPDIF In/Out
· Coaxial SPDIF In/Out
· Digital Out for 5.1 support (6-channel SPDIF Output to Creative digital speakers)
· 2xSB1394 / FireWire ports
· MIDI In / Out
It comes with a wireless remote control and a huge software bundle including music-making software such as Sonic Foundry Acid DJ 2.0, Steinberg Cubasis VST, and Image-Line Fruity Loops.
Ok, so when it came i opened the instruction manual where it told me how to install and set up the device. Now i am no computer expert...
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Advantages Best amateur card on the market! Disadvantages Takes up 2 PCI slots
...From their humble beginnings as a 16-bit sound card, SoundBlaster now gives you the AudigyPlatinumeX.
(Yeah baby!)
The `SoundBlaster® AudigyPlatinumeX` is sold as the
ultimate musician`s sound card and well it is!
Creative have designed it to set the new quality threshold for
listening and creating and again they`ve managed it.
Let me get the downside to this card out of the way first -
You need two PCI slots, £200 is a lot on sound, its got a daft...
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