5.1-Channel PCI Sound Card
Unleash the excitement of home theater on your PC. Envelop
yourself in genuine digital surround-sound – with discrete six-channel
output – right on your desktop. Games, CDs, MP3s and movies come
to life from your computer with the excitement of full-blown home
cinema surround sound. Advanced audio algorithms embedded in
Acoustic Edge’s high-performance audio accelerator support the latest
in DVD movies and gaming audio, and will transform stereo sources
into deep-immersion 5.1-channel surround sound.
Experience state-of-the-art 360º Surround Sound. An
embedded, patented QSound algorithm extracts complex and distinct
5.1 channel information from stereo or ProLogic sources. Coupled
with the unique QMSS algorithm, the Acoustic Edge analyzes stereo
mixes and places sound effects in convincing three-dimensional space.
QSound algorithms will give you unmatched 3D audio realism for
games and movies using any speaker configuration from two to six
speakers. For true 5.1 multi-channel sound, add 5.1 channel surround
speakers and Acoustic Edge
™
will transform your PC into your PHT
(personal home theater).
The power behind Acoustic Edge is the Philips ThunderBird
Avenger
™
audio accelerator. This powerful DSP (Digital Signal
Processor) can process up to 256 sounds simultaneously with minimal
consumption of your computer’s power. An extreme hardware accel-
erator assures high-fidelity audio and frees your computer to concen-
trate its power on better graphics or game speed. With up to 96
available concurrent streams, and with EAX
™
2.0 and A3D
™
1.0 game
compatibility, Acoustic Edge delivers the most powerful audio force
available today for the most intense game experience possible. Turn
your games into a true home theater experience!
SIREN
™
XPress Music Management Software. Record CDs and
other music straight to your hard drive at the highest-possible quality
– save songs at near CD-quality (2 minutes per MB) or at full CD-
quality (1 minute per MB) Use it to create your own library of music!
Add names of the song, artist, album and genre type to each track in
your library. Enter information yourself, or use SIREN
™
XPress CDDB
link to get the data directly over the Internet.Then, organize your
music collection with SIREN
™
XPress’ powerful music management
engine. Use sorting, grouping and filtering to organize thousands of
songs quickly.
Technical Specifications
Audio Accelerator/Digital Signal Processor
• PHILIPS ThunderBird Avenger
™
DSP for extreme hardware acceleration
Codec
• AC97 CODEC
Digital Acceleration
• 96 streams of 3D audio acceleration including position reverb
• 256 streams of DirectSound accelerations and digital mixing
• Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback
• 64 hardware sample rate conversion channels up to 48khz
• Wavetable and FM Synthesis
• DirectInput devices
Comprehensive Connectivity
• 5.1 (6 channel) channel analog output
• Digital S/PDIF output (stereo, AC3 or DTS signal)
• Digital S/PDIF input
• MIDI in/Midi out/dual game port
• Additional external inputs: Line in, Mic in
• Additional internal inputs: CD in, Aux in,TAD in, S/PDIF in)
• Special effects can be applied to any audio input including conversion of stereo to
quadraphonic or 5.1 output, QXpander, 2D-to-3D remapping and reverb
Music Synthesis
• Up to 576 total wavetable synthesis voices
• Reverb and chorus
• 64 channel hardware CD quality (16 bit, 44.1khz) wavetable synthesizer with
5.9MB sample set
• Hardware FM Synthesizer (real mode DOS)
• 512 voice professional quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility
Digital Signal Processor Algorithms
• QSound3DInteractive
™
positional 3D for 2 speakers, 4 speakers or 5.1 speakers
• QSound Multi Speaker System
™
for quadraphonic or 5.1 channel output of stereo music,
video and games
• QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX
™
and DirectSound3D
™
games
• QSurround
™
virtual 5.1 playback of DVDs using 2 speakers*
* Requires compatible soft-DVD player
System Requirements:
• One available PCI 2.1-compliant slot
• Genuine Intel‚ Pentium class 133Mhz or faster processor
• Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chip set
• 16MB system RAM
• CD-ROM for driver installation
PSC
706
PSC
706
www.philipsusa.com
Printed in USA
Date printed: November 2000
Specifications subject to change without notice.
© 2000 Philips Consumer Electronics Co.
A Division of Philips Electronics North America Corp.
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