Wednesday, April 18th 2007
Auzentech to Develop Sound Card Based on Creative X-Fi Chipset
Auzentech Inc., developer of the world's first Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect PCI sound card, announced two days ago a new sound card series based on the Creative X-FI chipset. The Auzen X-FI Prelude 7.1 is scheduled for release near the end of May 2007. It will fully support EAX 5.0 and have the same expandability as the Auzen X-Meridian 7.1. Support for Dolby Digital Live real time encoding for Vista is scheduled for Q4 of this year. The Auzen X-Fi Prelude marks the first time Creative has permitted a third-party soundcard vendor to use the Creative X-FI chipset in its own soundcard design. "We're excited to provide Auzentech with our award-winning X-Fi audio chipset and technology to provide an outstanding audio experience for Auzentech's customers," said Steve Erickson, VP of audio for Creative. I'd like to thank our forum members for this story.
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7 Comments on Auzentech to Develop Sound Card Based on Creative X-Fi Chipset
Honestly, who cares. All I see is blah blah blah PCI connection blah blah blah.
Honestly, I'm happy with my Audigy. I WANT an X-Fi card for my computer, and will have one. But I refuse to buy another PCI device. Give me PCIe x1 interface! :nutkick:
I own both: Audigy 4 and Auzen X-Meridian 7.1 and I only use Meridian right now because I need Dolby Live feed to my amplifier. Vista doesn't like/use EAX, they wan't to give other sound cards a chance by forcing use of OpenAL, so with Auzen X-Meridian 7.1 I get full surround, hardware accelerated and DD Live. If new card supports EAX 5 that's cool, but then Creative will come up with new card and EAX 7 and your card will be useless. I think OpenAL is the way to go.
and CMI cards are the only ones i know of currently with fully functional vista drivers.....creative=fail, VIA=fail(but they are working on it), this card soulds like a neet idea, but personaly, i will use my onboard adi chipset or buy a CMI based card, i had enought of creatives crappy hardware and crappy software.
And the only reason I won't buy a CMI card, is because is doesn't have a DSP. They still rely on the cpu to do their processing . If I didn't want my sound card to do the actual processing, I would just use my on board optical out, and spend the money on an outboard DSP.