Audio Sound Card

A: Auzentech provides top-quality audio sound card solutions to keep your inner audiophile happy.

Consider your inner-audiophile. That's the part of you that loves fidelity and multi-channel playback. The side of you that realizes down-sampled music is missing something. The portion of your mind that thinks two-channel stereo is about 5.1 channels too few. It's the part of you that wants an audio sound card.

Considering your inner-audiophile, you sense that something has gone terribly wrong. Just when true lossless recording and playback is possible without any of flaws introduced from analog recording and playback, the age of MP3 players arrived. Portability became more important than fidelity. Enthusiasm about music is everywhere—and everywhere, that music is downsampled using mediocre audio sound cards. Your inner-audiophile is less than happy.

That's where Auzentech PCI audio sound cards come in.

Resolution

As an audiophile, know the bit resolution on standard CD audio: 16 bits at 44.1 kHz. It produces playback that is acceptable to the average listener—but not to you.

DVD audio is better. It commonly it defaults down to 24bits at 96kHz. The top resolution is  24bits at 192kHz, and with music sampled at 192,000 times per second, this makes for extremely accurate audio recording and playback. CD audio is no match, and MP3s are simply down-sampled versions of CD audio.



The X-Mystique and X-Plosion audio sound cards from Auzentech handle up to 96 kHz sampling. The forthcoming X-Meridian soundcard will handle up to 192 kHz. This will give you audio quality that most people can only discern from analog by the absence of defects like tape hiss. It's a kind of audio sound card perfection.

Channels

Your inner-audiophile loves surround sound, whether in music, movies, or terribly violent video games. Auzentech audio sound cards provide it.

Auzentech's X-Mystique sound card was the first add-in audio sound card available that would encode a Dolby® Digital 5.1 signal. On its heels followed the X-Plosion, the first certified Dolby® Digital Live (DDL) and DTS-Connect PCI audio sound card available. With 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 channels of surround sound, sound follows action in movies and games, music is deeper and more realistic.

With Auzentech's audio sound cards, DDL and DTS are able to up-sample two-channel sources during playback: Your stereo MP3 can become 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 surround sound. The quality difference is noticeable for MP3s, Games, and movie playback. Since DDL discards more information, DTS will be the preferred choice by audio purists.

Playback

Listen however you want. The signal from your Auzentech audio sound card can be transferred to your Audio Visual (AV) receiver with an optical Toslink connector for a pure digital bitstream. Or you can use the built-in analog Operational Amplifiers (OPAMPs) on the audio sound card board for direct output to your powered speakers.

The most discerning audiophiles can even upgrade the OPAMPs to higher quality chips. It's not difficult—the Auzentech FAQ page provides chip recommendations and installation instructions. And you will love the result.

Next Steps

If your inner audiophile feeling ignored, an Auzentech audio sound card can help. Bask in pure digital bitstreams played through your external AV receivers. Rock to directly powered multi-channel speakers. And in a pinch, experience virtual surround sound using only two speakers or headphones. The sound is crisp and true to the original source. If you're serious about audio, you need to get a serious audio sound card.

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Category: Soundcards. Date published: May 22, 06