Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express Sound Card

The Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI Express Sound Card from Creative Labs aims to give you superb music, video, gaming, and voice audio on your computer. The card fits into a PCI Express slot and offers a 3.5mm mic/line combo input jack and four 3.5mm speaker output jacks, for compatibility with a variety of sound sources, speakers, and headphones. It also has TOSLINK optical digital input and output ports. The optical digital output port supports stereo S/PDIF out, multichannel out via Dolby Digital Live, and pass-through of multichannel DVD sound.

This card also features a number of technologies for improving your computer's audio. The Xtreme Fidelity technology restores the detail and clarity to compressed music files like MP3, WMA, or AAC, ideal for music downloads and Internet radio. CMSS-3D technology provides an accurate positional audio experience, allowing you to enjoy surround sound with even standard stereo headphones. Put yourself into the middle of a symphony, or locate enemies in your games by sound alone! The EAX Advanced HD 5.0 sound effects technology provides additional detail to further enhance your games and movies.

For recording music, the sound card features ASIO 2.0 drivers, so that you can connect recording devices to the sound card and access them with zero latency. The sound card includes a free download of PowerDVD software with DTS and Dolby EX decoding for watching your movies with cinematic surround sound. A suite of other software titles and functions from Creative are also bundled, allowing you to tap into the sound card's full potential.