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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer 5.1 is what we consider to be the best sound card on the market today.
$69.95

Some of its specs include:

E-mu Systems, Inc. EMU10K1™ music synthesis engine

 

Effects Engine

E-mu Systems, Inc. EMU10K1 patented effects processor

Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch shifter, or distortion across any audio source

Capable of processing, mixing and positioning audio streams using up to 131 available hardware channels

Full digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain, eliminating noise from the signal

Customizable effects architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded from the Web

Full bass, treble and effects controls available for all audio sources

EAX™ and 3D Audio Technology

 

User-selectable settings are optimized for headphones, two, four or six speakers and external A/V amplifiers

 

Dolby® Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in analog or digital modes

 

Upgradable 3D audio architecture allows for improvements over time

 

Accelerates Microsoft® DirectSound® and DirectSound 3D

 

Hardware acceleration of EAX in games

 

Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ technology places any mono or stereo source in a 360° audio space

 

EAX effects - user-selectable DSP modes that simulate acoustic environments

Hollywood-Quality, 32-Bit Digital Audio Engine

Processes bit resolutions from 4-bit to 16-bit

Processes sample rates from 5kHz to 48kHz

All sound sources are bundled with 32-bit precision for highest quality output

Analog and digital I/O modes supported

Hardware full duplex support enables simultaneous record and playback at 8 standard sample rates

Utilizes AC '97 Audio Codec

MIDI Interface/Joystick Port

Supports Sound Blaster® MIDI and MPU-401 modes

IBM compatible 15-pin joystick port with analog support

Support for digital and DirectInput™ game devices

On-Board Connectors

Analog/Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer/6-channel S/PDIF Output)

Line in

Microphone in

Line level out (front)/Headphone out

Line level out (rear)

MIDI/Joystick port

Telephone Answering Device in

MPC-3 Analog CD Audio in

Digital CD Audio in

Expansion header for Live!Drive series or Optical Digital I/O card (available separately)

Works with the Following Standards

 

Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Millennium Edition

 

General MIDI

 

MPC-3

 

Plug and Play

 

Sound Blaster PCI

 

EAX

 

Microsoft DirectSound, DirectSound3D and derivatives

 

PCI 2.1 compliant

 

AC '97 compliant

 

Dolby Digital

$69.95

 

 

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