Thread: Creative Sound blaster X-FI Elite pro

Innovation remains at the top of the sound card game regular updates of its Sound Blaster cards and ever more complex functions. Its latest 7.1-channel Sound Blaster X-Fi professional elite, combined with the next generation of innovative Xtreme Fidelity (the X - Fi) audio chip to provide better sound than any other consumer sound card so far. A key element of the X - Fi feature is its 24-bit Crystalizer, digital technology, in which the X - Fi chip can improve your digital music. Innovation has also increased the application of a software-based mode selection, a complex of external I / O boxes and fancy new remote control. In X - Fi outstanding professional, can call themselves the core of the new gold standard for gamers and PC audio enthusiasts, but it is also the most expensive of the Sound Blaster has not yet.

Such as the Sound Blaster Pro Audio 4 in the X - Fi outstanding professional into three main components - the PCI sound card itself, an external I / O box, housing the hardware control and jack, and a remote control. In X - Fi outstanding professional I / O and remote control box has a large number of re-engineering. 57 in 324 of 229 millimeters, and it’s I / O in almost 50% of the audio than 4. To accommodate additional large-scale control and variety than ever before, jack, but now the box can not mid tower sat neatly at the top of the computer case. As a solution, creative supplies plastic low profile vertical position to install it, but the button labels do not sync from this point of view.

In X - Fi outstanding professional remote control is about the size of a typical set-top box remote control and features dozens of buttons. Thumbwheels the use of dedicated digital signal processing (DSP) functions, such as 24-bit Crystalizer, the CMSS 3D upmixing and EAX 5.0 advanced HD audio processing of the game. All the features can also be on the I / O, and the adoption of the software. The I / O of the front panel has a 1/4-inch headphone jack (13.5 millimeters in order to provide 1/4-inch headphone adapter) and two-line jack with 1/4-inch line level knob. You can mute, volume, and DSP functions, in accordance with the appropriate knob on the remote or in the I / O in. Blue LED lets you know when the total sales mute and green light-emitting diode display active processing functions.

The I / O housing in its return to RCA stereo input group, as a standard auxiliary input or phono input, can be directly connected to a turntable. Full-size and the MIDI output jack to enable connection synthesizers and other equipment, and optical and coaxial digital connectivity to facilitate the digital speaker systems or mini-disc recorder. An obvious drawback, but the difference is that professional audio 4, in the X - Fi outstanding professional there is no FireWire port. Taking into account the development, it seems unlikely that we will have USB 2.0 ports 4 we hope that in the audio professional to review any X - Fi card family. The PCI card analog output jacks up to 7.1-channel multimedia speaker.

In the Sound Blaster X - Fi Elite Pro the main software interface is innovative volume group, bird's nest in the Windows task bar. From the volume group, you can switch entertainment, audio and video production and game modes. Each approach has its own unique interface, and innovation, to optimize the drive and the processor, the task at hand. For music and movies, entertainment mode, the simplest interface, large volume control, bass and treble control, and the icon to open up more, you can configure the settings on the screen. Audio creation mode, it supports low-latency support Steinberg's ASIO protocol, simplified look like professional recording software and allows you to choose different sound sources and to determine the mixer like environment at all levels.