Introduction
With 24 times more power than its predecessor, Sound Blaster X-Fi delivers amazingly crisp, clear Xtreme Fidelity™ audio playback, and the most realistic surround experience ever with headphones or multichannel speakers for all your digital entertainment.
- For music, it adds back the audio detail that is lost during MP3 or WMA compression
- For gaming, it delivers the fastest and smoothest game play with hardware-accelerated audio
- For movies, it offers incredible, realistic surround sound with your regular headphones or multichannel speakers
Xtreme Music
If you download MP3s and WMAs from music services like Yahoo!®, Napster™ or Rhapsody®, you have been listening to compressed music where quality and clarity have been compromised. With Sound Blaster X-Fi, all the sparkles lost during compression will be restored and remastered automatically, making your music sound even better than it did on the original CD, in real time!
- 24-bit Crystalizer enhances the low and high frequencies and improves the dynamics of your compressed music with no degradation or introduction of audio artefacts.
- CMSS-3D converts any static stereo music into amazing surround sound on your headphones or multichannel speakers
Xtreme Gaming
Sound Blaster X-Fi is the most powerful audio based PC gaming accelerator ever designed. You will get accelerated frame rates during game play, even with all the audio effects turned on!
- Experience more than 15% faster PC gaming performance over built-in PC audio
- With X-RAM™ for audio, you can boost your gaming performance further*
- Hear positional audio so realistic you'll forget you're wearing headphones
- Upgrade your existing games to sound more dynamic and realistic with X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer™
- Enjoy the new standard for realism in gaming audio with new EAX® features including 128 simultaneous voices, EAX PurePath™, MacroFX™ and Environment FlexiFX™
No gaming rig is complete without Sound Blaster X-Fi!
*X-RAM is available in Sound Blaster X-Fi™ Fatality FPS and Sound Blaster X-Fi™ Elite Pro models
Xtreme Movies
With Sound Blaster X-Fi, you'll get incredible, cinematic surround audio for all your DVDs with a sense of spaciousness and enhanced positionality even when you are using headphones. It will also turn all your downloaded movies from stereo to multichannel.
- Get an amazingly realistic multichannel speaker experience through virtually any headphones with X-Fi CMSS®-3D
- Hear explosions, gun-shots and high-impact audio sequences that sound more realistic than ever before with audio enhancements
- Experience incredible audio with THX® certified quality and unbeatable movie sound with DTS-ES™ and Dolby® Digital EX decoding
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