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- By Adam_C @Nov 09, 2006
AuzenTech HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect is the most anticipated "World first", high quality, Dolby® Digital Live and DTS Connect logo certified soundcard for your PC. It sounds phenomenal and is feature rich.
Experience the extreme surround-sound experience and the high-resolution digital audio while playing games, listening to music, or watching movies.
DTS Digital Surround® is the sound format found in movie theaters. The HDA X-Plosion turns your PC into a DTS-Connect enabled PC capable of playing full surround sound from DTS-enabled movies, music videos, music discs, and games, as well as providing surround sound from normal stereo sources.
Dolby® Digital Live, a real-time encoding technology, converts any audio signal into a Dolby® Digital bit stream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC or game console can be hooked up to your Dolby® Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, ensuring the integrity of the audio signal.
The real-time interactive capabilities of DTS and DDL deliver more realistic and more fantastic contents of PC games, music and movies. Unique and luxurious design with gold plated PCB, jacks and metal bracket. Swappable dual DIP type OPAMP upgrades ultimate digital surround sound.
What is Dolby® Digital Live
Enjoy audio from your PC or game console through your home theater with Dolby® Digital Live. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC or game console can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal
DTS Connect is the latest thing from DTS that turns your PC into an action-packed entertainment experience that surrounds you in sound. Make your movies, music and games come alive in exciting, dynamic, multi-channel DTS Digital Surround®, the same sound format found in movie theaters. DTS Connect is a whole new way to enjoy your PC. DTS Connect makes it easy to turn your computer into the ultimate PC sound entertainment experience.
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Features and Specifications
C-Media CMI8770 PCI chipset (8CH audio single chip with DTS® Connect and Dolby® Digital Live Real-Time Content Encoder)
Integrated S/PDIF input/output supports 44.1kHz/48kHz/96kHz sample rate and 16/24bits resolution
The world's first DTS¨ Connect logo program certificated PCI audio board
DTS® Interactive : A real-time 5.1 encoder that takes any 2 or more channel and encodes it into DTS® bit stream. DTS® Interactive provides a single cable connection via S/PDIF digital audio output to a DTS® enabled surround sound system by encoding all audio into a DTS® compatible bit stream at 1.5Mbps
DTS® Neo:PC : An up mixing matrix technology that turns any 2 channel audio into 7.1 surround sound. DTS® Neo:PC, based upon DTS® Neo:6 matrix surround technology, transforms any stereo content such as MP3, WMA or CD audio, into a 7.1-channel surround sound experience
Dolby® Digital Live(DDL) Real-Time Content Encoder converts PC audio into a 5.1 channel Dolby® Digital bit stream
Swappable dual DIP type OPAMP controlled preamp circuit (4pcs output control OPAMP IC with DIY socket, 2pcs MIC input control OPAMP IC with DIY socket)
Max 2.8Vrms full swing analog output gain by unique preamp circuit / incredible powerful analog output, improve dynamic range / SNR
Proper OPAMP control circuit (+8V, -8V dual power supply circuit) for high quality audio quality, prevent audio distortion at high volume level
Package contents: HDA X-PLOSION 7.1 DTS Connect Audio Card / MPC to MPC(2pin-2pin) CD S/PDIF audio cable / TOSLINK fiber optic digital cable / installation CD / warranty card / owner's manual
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It is the perfect card at the perfect price. If you are looking for a new sound card I would suggest this card over all others. That is why I can give it a perfect 10 out of 10 and our Recommended Award!
An excellent review from some 'extreme' PC enthusiasts. Lots of information, comparisons to other products (X-Fi, Soundstorm, Azalia HD, etc.), and good pictures.
The X-Plosion is a great follow up to the X-Mystique. It includes all of the features that made the X-Mystique great while adding the amazing DTS Connect features.
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Rated by Kloostec, April 19, 2008
I bought this card so that I could use the coax out to my Logitech Z-5500s. I'm already using the optical port with my PS3, so I needed a sound card with coax. This card works great, and supports dolby digital live so I get 5.1 sound in video games and other surround applications. The sound quality is good, and I haven't had any problems with it under 64-bit Vista. My only gripe is that it's a PCI sound card rather than a PCI-e sound card.
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Rated by djnocide, March 25, 2008
Good sound card. Can be a pain to find which programs can run it well with vista. Some games let you listen to music in the background and some don't. No patch to fix that.
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Rated by rootwiler, March 17, 2008
wow, what an upgrade from onboard Asus P5K. Love this card, I would recommend this card to anyone looking for a upgrade in sound. A+ forsure!
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Rated by Blasphemy, March 12, 2008
WOW! I regret waiting two years to buy a sound card to replace my onboard audio! I was skeptical as I only own the $80 Logitech X-540 speakers, but after having this sound card for one day and playing a lot of mp3s, a movie, and WoW, I can say it is a MAJOR step up from onboard audio. The sound is also way better on my Icemat Siberia headphones. Nothing bad to say for the $80 spent on this card. If I had to nit-pick, for some reason the drivers that came with the CD wanted to install to a directory named "EU," so I downloaded the lastest drivers and it decided to install to a directory named "Ðu." I thought that was very strange, but whatever.
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Rated by CorpDan, March 3, 2008
Bought this card because of onboard optical out. All features work well in XP, but not so much in vista.
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Rated by Rui_H, February 24, 2008
This soundcard takes care of majority of my HTPC's audio tasks along with the digitally connected Panasonic receiver. Set up was easy and it was outputting DTS Connect 5.1 signal in mere minutes. It's also set up to pass through any Dolby Digital and DTS streams. Perfect for any home theatre setup.
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Rated by David_L, January 27, 2008
This was my first time using a sound card and WOW!! I have been missing out all these years using on-board.
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Rated by eric_r, January 21, 2008
I bought this to hook up my Creative inspire 5700 Surround System (Receiver and Speakers) to my PC for watching DVD's play games and the like on my computer. DTS connect is perfect when you dont have 5.1 analogue input on your reciver.
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Rated by Broody, January 12, 2008
This is a really good card to listen to music, but I prefered my old Creative Audigy 2 ZS for gaming. Linked to an amplifier, it delivers a great sound with not much quality loss.
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Rated by Mike_G, December 31, 2007
Just received today....what a difference! On board sound on p5b is a joke compared to what I'm listening to now. Wasn't sure if I should spend the cash. Glad I did!
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