Sound Blaster Live! 5.1

PCI 32-bit, 1024-voice Environmental Audio Sound Card, now wit Dolby Digital 5.1 support. For system integrators, VAR's and Government users who are looking for a powerful digital and analog 5.1 audio solution, the SB Live 5.1 provides Hollywood-quality output using 2 through 5.1 speakers for the best 3D audio experience possible to date. EMU10K1 Digital Signal Processor provides studio quality sound reproduction for digital processing and playback of MP3, WMA, WAV, Internet Audio, MIDI, and CD audio. EAX Environmental Audio Effects allows gamers to hear sounds coming from all around them over multiple speaker configurations with full EAX support. For music, customize your audio files with EAX advanced audio effects by adding preset effects for jazz, pop, rock, and more, similar to your home stereo presets to hear your music exactly the way you like it. Creative Multi-Speaker Surround (CMSS) provides optimizations for headphones, two-, four- or 5.1 speakers and home stereo systems with stereo signals capable of being upmixed to 5.1 output to enhance audio playback. PlayCenter 2 features a full 320Kbps encoder and up to 9x MP3 acceleration for encoding and organizing high quality, compact MP3 and WMA files. Digital and Analog output of Dolby Digital 5.1 audio into 6 discreet channels for incredible sounding movies and games. Digital connection to Cambridge SoundWorks Desktop Theater DTT3500 Digital speakers and Analog connection to home stereo systems and Cambridge SoundWorks Desktop Theater DTT2200. Includes card and installation CD. INTERFACE - PCI 32-bit bus-mastering. WAVETABLE - E-mu Systems EMU10K1 music synthesis engine; 64-voice polyphony with E-mu's 8-point interpolation technology; Uses SoundFont technology for user-definable wavetable sample sets (includes 2MB, 4MB & 8MB sets); Load up to 32MB of sample into host memory for professional music reproduction; Scalable PCI wavetable synthesis architecture; Up to 1024-voice polyphony with multitimbre capability; 48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS-compatible instruments and 10 drum kits.