Philips 5.1 manual Key Features, Sound Agent 2 HD 24-bit Audio Control Center

Philips Sound Solutions

1.1. KEY FEATURES

Professional grade audio components transform your computer into an advanced digital audio processor!

•Front output external speaker jack (Left/Right) – 24-bit / 96KHz

•Surround output external speaker jack (Left/Right) – 24-bit / 96KHz

•Center / LFE output external speaker jack – 24-bit / 96KHz

•Standard microphone input jack – 24-bit / 96KHz

•Standard line input jack – 24-bit / 96KHz

•CD audio and audio from Video card internal input connector – 24-bit / 96KHz

•Coax S/PDIF Output compatible with Dolby Digital/DTS pass-thru – 24-bit / 96KHz

Sound Agent 2 HD™ 24-bit Audio Control Center:

•32-bit floating point digital signal processing enhances sound while maintaining 24-bit precision for music, gaming, DVD movies and external inputs.

•Full 24-bit effects processing all channels.

•Exclusive QMSS5.1 technology creates 6 independent channels of audio from ALL stereo sources when in 5.1 channel speaker mode.

•QSurround enhances Dolby Digital 6-channel sources by filling the sound gap between speakers to create a complete 360-degree wrap-around audio experience that is smooth and natural. But more importantly, it creates virtual 3D surround over a two-speaker setup.

•Active Dynamic Filtering found in the new QSizzle and QRumble components feature low, mid and high frequency enrichment algorithms that help restore sonic fidelity for highly compressed digital audio files such as MP3s and WMAs. Simply put, it makes MP3’s sound great.

•QInteractive3D technology offers precise 3D sound positioning with all headphone and speaker output configurations and is compatible with DirectSound3D, EAX 1.0, EAX 2.0/I3D Level 2, and A3D enabled games.

•QXpander stereo enhancement creates input to virtual 3D surround sound with any headphone or two-speaker set configuration.

•Professional style 10-Band Equalizer for precise sound tailoring of all digital audio media.

•Industry standard digital output (S/PDIF Out) allows connection to digital speakers or external decoders.

•15 unique reverb environments using the exclusive QSound Environmental Modeling (QEM) algorithms for totally immersive gaming and dramatic musical performances.

•Normalization smoothes out the volume differences within audio files and reduces the volume variations for all audio sources - automatically.

•Default and user defined Presets for most settings to personalize all your games, music, and movies - exactly the way you like it.

•S/N Ratio > 104dB

•THD = 0.004%

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