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Comparison: X-Fi Xtreme Music vs. X-Mystique HDA |
March 7, 2006 |
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In June of last year, we had a look at--and a listen to--the HDA/Blue Gears Xmystique 7.1 sound card (read it here),
and came away very much impressed. We were very excited by its
performance after a few driver bugs were ironed out. Creative must have
felt the pressure from the little sound card that could because they
had a new line of cards out less than half a year later--the subject of
today's review--the X-Fi Xtreme Music.
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Box Contents and Card Details |
The Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card comes in an
extremely large box for such a small card.
On the back of the box, Creative crams in as much info about all the
possibilities that it can. They make
sure to highlight the three major modes the card can be used in which are
Entertainment Mode, Gaming Mode, and Audio Creation Mod. Inside the box, you should receive the X-Fi
XtremeMusic card, a quick start guide, the installation cd--and, what’s this??--an
AOL cd? That’s right, somehow an AOL coaster
made its way into the box as well. I
guess that’s what all the extra packaging is for.
For those of you into computer fashion shows, I must say, I
like the look of the card with its dark PCB and gold highlights. The connections on the back of the card
consist of what Creative refers to as a FlexiJack as it has three functions: a
port for Digital I/O; Line In; and Mic In.
It also has three line out jacks for front, rear, side, center, and
subwoofer connections. The X-Fi
XtremeMusic also has an AD_Link connection for connecting to an X-Fi I/O
console.
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- 24-bit Analog-to-Digital
conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate
- 24-bit Digital-to-Analog
conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1 speaker output
- 24-bit Digital-to-Analog
conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output
- 16-bit to 24-bit recording
sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
- ASIO 2.0 support at
16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24-bit/96kHz
with direct monitoring
- Enhanced SoundFont support at
up to 24-bit resolution
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz
Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
- Stereo Output: 109dB
- Front and Rear
Channels: 109dB
- Center, Subwoofer and
Side Channels: 109dB
- Total Harmonic Distortion +
Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pass filter) = 0.004%
- Frequency Response (-3dB,
24-bit/96kHz input ) = <10Hz to 46kHz
- Frequency Response (-3dB,
24-bit/192kHz input) = <10Hz to 88kHz (Stereo only)
For tec specs on the X-Mystique please see our full review here.
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