Welcome To High-Definition Digital Audio Entertainment - Creative Extigy User Manual

Introduction
Welcome to high-
definition digital
audio entertainment
Thank you for purchasing Creative's 1st high performance external Sound Blaster
audio solution, the Sound Blaster Extigy!
Sound Blaster Extigy is a breeze to set up and use. Installation is truly hassle-free
through the USB port, and the bundled Creative PlayCenter 3 is a one-stop digital
music center that lets you play, record, organize and burn your own audio CDs
easily. With the intuitive remote control unit, you can easily transform your PC or
notebook/laptop into a digital entertainment center as everything is just a touch of
a button away. Essential buttons like master volume, mic volume and CMSS are also
easily accessible at the front panel.
Sound Blaster Extigy also raises the bar for digital sound quality on the PC, by
delivering high definition 24 bit/96 kHz quality multi-channel sound for digital music,
movie and gaming. In fact, the sound quality delivered is on par with high-end home
theater systems that cost hundreds of dollars! Also with EAX ADVANCED HD
digital music lovers will be able to enjoy an enriched digital music experience with
advanced features like Audio Clean-Up, Time-Scaling, EAX ADVANCED HD Audio
Effects and DREAM. Most importantly, while other external audio solutions still
struggle to deliver good 2-channel digital audio, Sound Blaster Extigy delivers
exemplary 5.1-channel digital audio performance with an architecture that
intelligently optimizes the limited USB bandwidth for audio data transfer. This
architecture was designed from the ground up to optimize available external
bandwidth for digital audio processing without compromising quality and
performance.
Sound Blaster Extigy also works as a standalone device, when not connected to the
PC. You can conveniently plug in your personal audio players (CD/MD/MP3 players)
for easy music listening or even up-mix stereo music to 5.1-channel audio using
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