A Dedicated Sound Card For Notebooks

Creative today announced the availability of the new X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook for the Australian market. The company claims that users may finally enjoy superb audio from his/her notebook.

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According to Creative, the X-Fi Crystallizer restores the detail and vibrancy to compressed music and movies, with highs and lows intelligently enhanced to ensure crystal clear clarity. Moreover, the X-Fi CMSS-3D moves sound away from the ears into the surrounding space, creating an amazing virtual headphone surround sound in DVD movies. It also expands stereo music into rich, full multi-channel sound with voices centered in front of you and ambient sound all around you.

In addition to the X-Fi technology, the X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook also includes the following key features:

• Stereo/Surround playback at 24-bit/96kHz
• SPDIF out (24-bit/96kHz Windows XP and 24-bit/48kHz Windows Vista)
• Recording: 24-bit/96kHz
• Supports EAX 4.0 and OpenAL
• Integrated software player with EAX enhancement tools including EAX effects, audio cleanup, smart volume management, graphics equalizer, time scaling, cross fading and bass boost management
• Portable design without the need for any power adaptor
• Delivers high quality audio over headphones on the move or multi-channel 7.1 audio with the included speaker docking module

RRP: $199.95
See: www.au.creative.com