M-Audio manual About The Revolution, Key Revolution 7.1 Features

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About The Revolution 7.1

With this card, gamers, media enthusiasts, and business users can add speakers and supercharge their systems with eight channels of pro-quality audio

THE Revolution 7.1 is half the size of the stereo sound cards of just a few years ago, yet it delivers up to eight separate channels of sound, is far qui- eter, and is priced less than $100. It includes full (not trial) versions of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, WinDVD4 Dolby Digital EX Edition,VJ Lite, and

trial versions of other software.

Time to Upgrade: Stuck with poor sound for years, many computer users don’t know they can upgrade their sound card and speakers to get professional, high- quality audio. Now is the time.

Key Revolution 7.1 Features

 

 

 

Up to eight separate channels—left, center,

 

Surround Sound

 

right, surround (2), and surround center/rear

 

 

 

(2) plus subwoofer—completely envelope users.

 

 

 

 

 

Surround effect

 

SRS TruSurround XT technology gives sur-

 

 

round-sound effect from a traditional stereo

 

from two speakers

 

 

 

two-speaker set-up or headphones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Convert stereo into

 

Advanced Circle Surround II technology creates

 

 

true multichannel surround sound from stereo

 

true surround sound

 

 

 

 

MP3s, CDs, and other audio.

 

 

 

 

 

Ready for most

 

Supports Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3), Dolby Pro

 

 

Logic, DTS, and other encoded multi-channel

 

encoded formats

 

 

 

formats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best signal-to-noise

 

Even the 106dB SNR of Creative’s Sound Blas-

 

 

ter Audigy 2 Platinum eX can’t match The

 

ratio available*

 

 

 

Revolution 7.1’s SNR of 107dB.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* source: www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy2_platinum_ex/specs.asp

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Contents Revolution V I E W E R ’ S G U I D E Contents V I E W E R ’ S G U I D E Key Editorial Contacts Today’s Audio Cards Pro Sound at Low Prices PartTop 5 Cool Things To Do With The Revolution T H U P T OKey Revolution 7.1 Features About The RevolutionWhat Makes It So Good? Outclasses Audigy 2 At a Lower Price Competitive MatrixProduct Info Box Revolution 7.1 Product SummaryTesting The Revolution Test BedAbout Consumer Multimedia Speakers C O R D I N G D O L B Y a N DHardware Set-Up Connection Color Coding Software Installation Surround Sound FormatsSpeaker Configurations Surround SoundSpeaker Placement Guide Revolution Control Panel L I S T Operating System Considerations Listening Tests Test 3 Stereo Music Test 4 Surround Sound on Stereo Speakers Test 5 DVD Surround Decode From the same site, audition a multichannel WMA 9 Pro file Test 9 Laboratory Audio Testing V I E W E R ’ S G U I D E RightMark Audio Analyzer Testing Product Specifications Hardware FeaturesProduct Specifications cont’d Bass Management Minimum System RequirementsL T H a N Surround Sound Receivers Receivers with 7.1 SupportDVD Test Scenes Suggested DVD ViewingSuggested DVD Viewing Music Listening Samples Suggested CD ListeningAdditional Resources Company Backgrounder Press Release V I E W E R ’ S G U I D E