If you are looking for a sound card that enhances your listening enjoyment - at a price that fits your pocket - Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic is it. The latest in Creative Technology's offerings of cutting-edge sound cards, Sound Blaster X-Fi harnesses the power of the Sound Blaster Audigy series and betters its features! Never before has audio fidelity been so crystal clear. Be immersed in breath-taking surround sound, be it during music listening, movie watching or PC gaming. Upgrade your existing library of MP3s and other music files to DVD-Audio quality with X-Fi Crystalizer. Or turn your stereo music into amazing multi-channel surround sound with X-Fi CMSS-3D. With Creative MediaSource, you can easily Super-Rip CDs into Xtreme Fidelity quality audio permanently! Sound Blaster X-Fi's THX certification, Dolby^® Digital EX¹ and DTS-ES¹ support means your PC hub can be transformed into a virtual home theater.

Our breakthrough 3DMIDI technology lets you place orchestral MIDI instruments and move them around in a 3-dimensional space. You can now record in the comfort of your own home to the highest precision with X-Fi's ASIO low latency and a rich 109 dB SNR quality playback. Sound Blaster X-Fi has ushered in a new age of home digital entertainment.

Harness the full power of Sound Blaster X-Fi™ XtremeMusic by selecting one of its 3 usage modes:

	Take your music and movie audio to a new level of quality! With its Xtreme Fidelity audio playback and unparalleled surround sound capabilities, Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic is the key to transforming your PC setup into a complete Digital Entertainment hub.
	X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.
	X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.

Enjoy the latest cinematic technologies for the ultimate PC movie experience!
Experience incredible audio with THX certified quality and unbeatable movie sound with DTS-ES™¹ and Dolby^® Digital EX¹ decoding!

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic delivers the fastest gaming performance ever!
A completely re-engineered game audio processing engine utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor allows Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic to deliver the fastest gaming performance ever seen, providing more than a 15% performance boost over motherboard audio solutions while simultaneously delivering full audio effects!

	X-Fi CMSS-3D delivers an amazingly realistic surround sound experience with headphones Know exactly where your enemies are whether you're using headphones or speakers. You won't believe how good X-Fi CMSS-3D positional gaming audio is; in fact, it's so good you'll forget you're wearing headphones!
	EAX® ADVANCED HD™ 5.02 delivers incredibly realistic gaming audio! Features like 128 voice support, EAX MacroFX, EAX PurePath and Environment FlexiFX set a new standard for EAX and realism available in gaming audio.
	X-Fi Crystalizer™ automatically Upgrades existing games into Xtreme Fidelity Experience gaming audio that sounds more dynamic and realistic than you could ever imagine!

Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic offers high quality, feature-rich recording.
Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor, you'll get the most advanced features and effects of any audio processor for music and audio creation currently available, delivering pristine audio playback quality. The Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor features a near transparent SRC engine that converts to and from any resolution at 136dB THD+N, and also provides digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kHz.

You'll also get support for ASIO recordings with latency as low as one millisecond, up to eight different hardware effects, 24-bit SoundFont^® sampling, and 3DMIDI for amazing flexibility and recording results.

¹ Supported in Windows XP only.
² Supported in Windows Vista via OpenAL / Creative ALchemy.