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Auzentech soundcard

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sonoma1993

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saw this over on guru3d.com. This new Auzentech soundcard is based off a creative soundblaster x-fi chipset.

Santa Clara, CA -April 16, 2007: Auzentech, Inc. (www.auzentech.com), developer of the world's first Dolby® Digital Live and DTS® Connect PCI sound card, announces today 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.

?By building a soundcard based upon Creative's high-quality X-Fi? chipset, we are fulfilling one of the most common feature requests from our customers,? said Stephane Bae, President of Auzentech, Inc. "When you're playing games, the Auzen X-Fi Prelude soundcard will output the best 3D audio and latest EAX® effects. And when you're listening to music or watching movies, you'll enjoy an audiophile-quality experience."

"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.
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auzen x-fi preulde 7.1
 
Wow, this is huge news. The first non Creative card to support full EAX, and will still be able to encode it into the DD Live / DTS Connect stream (which Creative still won't add to their cards for whatever reason)

 
Creative uber alles! Oh noes, irrational haters won't know what to do!

Anyhoo, as always, real-time Dolby encoding/output with negligible CPU overhead has been available free for Creative DSP's (Audigy and X-Fi) for some time and those can be had for $40-60. With another middleman and added licensing and schtuff this Prelude ain't gonna be cheap. But more options are nice.
 
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
where can i find one
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I think the auzentech said it'll be out towards the end of this year.

This card is going to be nice. It cool how they are using the x-fi chipset. Plus adding the other features in as well. I hope they release this card in pci-e x1 format.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
where can i find one
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I think the auzentech said it'll be out towards the end of this year.

This card is going to be nice. It cool how they are using the x-fi chipset. Plus adding the other features in as well. I hope they release this card in pci-e x1 format.
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It says May 2007 right in the press announcement, so, in a month or so
 
Vista is going to kill Creative Labs so they have to find ways to make money off of their sound cards. With that said, I am happy with my Audigy 2ZS and will probably still stick with it. If this card is cheap and comes in PCI-E, I may reconsider.
 
Looks cool but its still Creative labs. I wish a real alternative would come out to compete with Creative. They are the MS of sound cards.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Looks cool but its still Creative labs. I wish a real alternative would come out to compete with Creative. They are the MS of sound cards.
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It isn't creative labs at all....

Auzentech has alternatives...but if people want the feature set of the X-fi, competing companies have no choice but to use their chip. The rest of the board design will be very different from the X-fi however.
 
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Looks cool but its still Creative labs. I wish a real alternative would come out to compete with Creative. They are the MS of sound cards.
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It isn't creative labs at all....

Auzentech has alternatives...but if people want the feature set of the X-fi, competing companies have no choice but to use their chip. The rest of the board design will be very different from the X-fi however.
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As will the drivers, which is a major bonus. Auzentech's drivers are MUCH improved over C-media's standard driver set, so I'm hoping that the same will hold true for this card.
 
Originally posted by: Slick5150
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Looks cool but its still Creative labs. I wish a real alternative would come out to compete with Creative. They are the MS of sound cards.
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It isn't creative labs at all....

Auzentech has alternatives...but if people want the feature set of the X-fi, competing companies have no choice but to use their chip. The rest of the board design will be very different from the X-fi however.
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As will the drivers, which is a major bonus. Auzentech's drivers are MUCH improved over C-media's standard driver set, so I'm hoping that the same will hold true for this card.
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ORLY, how's that OpenAL capability (for C-Media) coming along? And for all the hatahs who think Creative drivers are crap, it is simply delusional to think Auzentech is going magically come up with anything better. In reality, the best that could be hoped for is they don't get any worse after increasing the complexity with an encode component and any other functionality.
 
Originally posted by: Auric
Originally posted by: Slick5150
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Looks cool but its still Creative labs. I wish a real alternative would come out to compete with Creative. They are the MS of sound cards.
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It isn't creative labs at all....

Auzentech has alternatives...but if people want the feature set of the X-fi, competing companies have no choice but to use their chip. The rest of the board design will be very different from the X-fi however.
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As will the drivers, which is a major bonus. Auzentech's drivers are MUCH improved over C-media's standard driver set, so I'm hoping that the same will hold true for this card.
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ORLY, how's that OpenAL capability (for C-Media) coming along? And for all the hatahs who think Creative drivers are crap, it is simply delusional to think Auzentech is going magically come up with anything better. In reality, the best that could be hoped for is they don't get any worse after increasing the complexity with an encode component and any other functionality.
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He didn't say that current Auzentech drivers are better than Creative's. He simply said he hopes that they continue to be better than C-media's standard drivers.

I personally have enjoyed my X-Plosion more than the old Audigy 2 ZS I had. Why? Because it works as I expect it to.

The Audigy was very finicky about settings in FFDshow and such to pass a 5.1 signal encoded into a video file as ac3 to my receiver. If the settings weren't just right...I would get no output. Now I just load any video file and my receiver immediately gets a DD signal. Less hassle is a big plus for me.

Another oddity was that Creative's digital out(minijack formfactor) would cause my receiver to freeze up. Now I don't usually bring it up because I never found out for sure if it was a bug in my receiver or the way the signal was being passed...but the change to Auzentech eliminated that problem as well. Again, it just works as I would expect it to.

Auzentech is a growing company and I think Creative recognizes that which is why they are agreeing to license the X-fi chipset to them. I do find it odd that on Auzentech's website it says "As of this writing, Creative and Auzentech are not affiliated". Seemed odd the way that is written as if it expects them to merge at some point. But who knows.
 
so what is gonna be the deal with vista and gaming sound solutions?

i gotta say, i dislike creative for a lot of their glitches, but xfi gaming does sound really good.
 
will i get a linux driver for an X-Fi chipset based soundcard sooner because of this deal...................?
 
Wow how times have changed. I would have never expected this out of Creative. Unfortunately I'll bet they'll only let Auzentech charge high prices for their cards, so this will be competition for the Platinum and the like.
 
Originally posted by: AmdInside
Vista is going to kill Creative Labs so they have to find ways to make money off of their sound cards. With that said, I am happy with my Audigy 2ZS and will probably still stick with it. If this card is cheap and comes in PCI-E, I may reconsider.
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Actually, I think it's the opposite. The X-Fi is the only card that has hardware support for OpenAL gaming. If anything, Vista did Creative a big favor by effectively killing off all of Creative's competition that still relied on DirectSound for in-game surround and effects. True, older products like the A2 are left behind, but this leaves the X-FI line in a very unique position of holding a very clear, distinct advantage over anything in the market place. The line even supports legacy DirectSound through it's is Alchemy software.
 
If it uses a Creative chip, it uses some form of Creative drivers. No thanks.

I've owned SoundBlasters and Audigy's. 95% of the time, they work great with the drivers that come on the CD (which completely flies in the logic of what we're used to...downloading the latest drivers!). EVERY time I've tried to update my creative drivers (W2KSP3/4, WinXPSP1/2) it's blown up on me. BSODs, games just crashing and sometimes no sound period.


Being that I don't do any professional recording on the PC, I've no need for a fancy card. Thankfully, onboard sound has made a quantum leap from what it was.

If you REALLY want good sound, take your motherboard's SPIDF digital out and run it into an outboard amp/AV receiver to some decent speakers.
 
This is great news.

C-Media failed to deliver, Auzentech went elsewhere.

This is how things work in the real world. This is where a real solution could emerge from.
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
This is great news.

C-Media failed to deliver, Auzentech went elsewhere.

This is how things work in the real world. This is where a real solution could emerge from.
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😕 Auzentech didn't go elsewhere, they went straight to Creative Labs.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: ribbon13
This is great news.

C-Media failed to deliver, Auzentech went elsewhere.

This is how things work in the real world. This is where a real solution could emerge from.
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😕 Auzentech didn't go elsewhere, they went straight to Creative Labs.
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C-media->Creative labs

That is going from one supplier...to another
 
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