Experience an amazing surround sound experience and high resolution digital audio while playing games, listening to music or watching movies. With premium operational amplifiers (OPAMPS) pre installed, the X-Plosion 7.1 Cinema sounds more phenomenal than other brands audio cards.

Enhanced Theatrical Experience is Auzentech's term for higher quality audio available out of the box with the X-Plosion 7.1 Cinema sound card. The upgrade provides improved sound quality by reducing the loss or distortion when using the analog outputs.

DTS Digital Surround is the sound format found in movie theatres. The X-Plosion 7.1 turns your PC into a DTS Connect enabled PC capable of playing full surround sound from DTS enabled movies, music videos, music discs or games, as well as providing surround sound from normal stereo sources.

Dolby Digital Live is a real time encoding technology which converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bit stream for transport and playback through a home theatre system. With it, your PC can be hooked up to a 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.

The X-Plosion 7.1 Cinema sports a unique and luxurious design with gold plated PCB, jacks and metal bracket. Swappable dual DIP type OPAMP provide upgrade pathways to superior analog surround sound.

Specifications:

* C-Media CMI8770 PCI chipset (eight channel audio single chip with DTS Connect and Dolby Digital Live real time content encoder).
* Eight channel codec embedded PCI audio single chip.
* Full duplex eight channel 24bit (96kHz) DAC & two channel 16bit (48kHz) ADC.
* Integrated SPDIF output supports 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz sample rate at 16 & 24bit resolutions.

Key Features:

DTS Interactive: A real time 5.1 encoder that takes any two or more channel and encodes it into DTS bit stream. DTS Interactive provides a single cable connection via SPDIF 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 two 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).
* Upgraded operational amplifiers from National OPAMP LM4562 and JRC5532.
* Max 2.8Vrms full swing analog output gain by unique preamp circuit offering incredible powerful analog output and improves dynamic range.
* Proper OPAMP control circuit (+8V, -8V dual power supply circuit) for high quality audio quality preventing audio distortion at high volume levels.
* Auzen soundcards support swappable OPAMP sockets for OPAMP upgrades.

Rear Panel Connectors:

* 3.5mm Mic in.
* 3.5mm Aux in.
* 3.5mm jacks for front, side, back, centre & subwoofer speakers.
* Coaxial digital port.
* Optical digital port.

Would you like to know more? Take a look at Auzentech's detailed product information, specifications & image gallery.