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Digital Research DRSOUNDA3D2 Aureal Vortex 2

Features

• A3D 2.0, DirectSound3D, and DirectSound hardware acceleration
• 320-voice wavetable synthesizer with DLS 1.0 and DirectMusic support
• High-performance PCI 2.1 interface
• Superior audio quality (exceeds PC98/99 specifications)
• Accelerated DirectInput game port
• INCLUDES: cd software.
• NEW IN OPENED BOX!

Product Review:

The DRSOUND stereo sound card is a 16-bit, Plug and Play, Full-Duplex sound card that integrates advanced audio features into one card. By automatically setting the I/O address, IRQ, and DMA settings, the Plug-N-Play feature minimizes device conflicts. The Full-Duplex feature enables recording and playback simultaneously making two-way communications on the Internet a reality.The stereo audio card brings a new dimension in multimedia functionality to your ordinary PC. It sets the standard for sound card performance, quality, and reliability. It provides the perfect solution for all your business audio, education & entertainment sounds, and other multimedia applications turning your PC into an audio powerhouse.

Originally developed for the NASA Virtual Environment Workstation for use in their astronaut training programs, Aureal's A3D is the de facto standard for 3D audio on over 3 million PCs. A3D puts the listener in the 3D environment, making sounds appear to come from any direction--left and right, front and back, top and bottom--giving gamers a decided advantage over their opponents. The Vortex2 PCI accelerates Aureal's new A3D 2.0, the most advanced 3D positional audio available. A3D 2.0 features Aureal Wavetracing technology, which includes Doppler, acoustic reflection, reverb, and occlusion to render lifelike audio based upon the actual acoustics of a 3D environment.

Vortex1 PCI supports A3D, the most advanced positional 3D technology available today. Originally developed for NASA for use in their astronaut training programs, Aureal's A3D is the de facto standard for 3D audio on over 3 million PCs. A3D puts the listener in the 3D environment, making sounds appear to come from any direction - left and right, front and back, top and bottom - giving gamers a decided advantage over their opponents.Powered by Aureal's own 300 MIP Vortex1 AU8820 audio processor chip, the Vortex1 PCI integrates an audio acceleration engine, 64-voice studio-quality wavetable synthesizer, and digital game port on a single high-performance PCI board.

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