A year before, it was unthinkable to buy a non-Aureal or non-Creative sound card. To put it bluntly, most competitors merely could not cope with Aureal and Creative Lab's impressive cost/function ratio. However, in the previous some months, the idea of option sound cards provided through ESS, Philips, or Yamaha chips has become more popular. Even S3's widely popular Diamond Monster Sound product line will soon be bringing "alternative" to the main stream.




Today, we will be demography a attending at Guillemot's latest artefact in the admirable Maxi Sound line, the Maxi Sound Fortissimo powered by the Yamaha's additional bearing YMF744 chip. The Fortissimo is actual agnate to the

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Hoon tech SoundTrack Agenda XG, which agency that you will be accepting the aforementioned Sensaura HRTF algorithms that you will acquisition in S3's Diamond Monster Sound MX400 but at a lower amount point. Furthermore, the Guillemot Fortissimo offers TOSLINK agenda outputs that will acquiesce you to affix to carriageable MiniDisc recorders, article the Sound Blaster Live! and MX400 cannot do out-of-the-box.


With Guillemot acclaimed for best video cards including the Falcon Northwest Special Edition Xentor32, and the Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI you ability apprehend the Fortissimo to be expensive. This is far from true. The Fortissimo is a bare fifty bucks. Although amount priced, the Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo absolutely doesn't skimp on the features. You get top-quality abounding 4-speaker HRTF as able-bodied as agenda output.