Product:	X-Fi Home Theater HD 7.1 Soundcard
Manufacturer:	Auzentech
Product code (SKU):	XFI-HTHD
Information:
Street price:	$249

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Bringing a home theater inside your PC
Hey Audio Guru's! The modern soundcard market is evolving very fast and bringing new features, supports and formats to the end users. The current market landscape involves many companies battling for the top spot in the market place and of course your hard earned audio dollars.

Auzentech took what many consider the greatest sound card of all time and updated it with the best of today's technology, making the X-Meridian 7.1 2G more than simply the must-have PC Audio solution for audiophiles - it's a feast for the ears. AuzenTech HDA X-Mystique 7.1. 7.1 channel surround. Sound Output Mode. MIDI, SPDIF input, microphone, speakers (back surround), speakers.

Download and unzip the driver. Uninstall the current driver(s) Go to ‘Start Programs Control Panel Add or Remove programs Uninstall the ‘Alchemy Driver’ Uninstall the ‘Dolby Digital Live Pack’ Uninstall the ‘Auzen X-Fi Prelude’ Reboot the PC Browse to the new driver folder Audio.

This ongoing one-upmanship between existing companies is what drives the soundcard market and ensures new products are higher quality and offers new and innovative features to the audio community. The HDMI standard is still considered new in the PC landscape, and while many GFX cards offer HDMI options for graphics the audio side of the standard has been ignored and is lacking. Auzentech has been developing an HDMI soundcard for quite a while and this new card is said to be loaded with features for any audio tasks. Today in the Guru3D audio lab, we have a brand spanking new Auzentech Home Theater HD 7.1.

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We are going to run this card through our extensive testing and measuring regimen to let our readers know exactly what you will be getting for your hard earned audio dollars. Let’s get to the good stuff, shall we?

Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1
Info: Auzentech
Price: $199 USD

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Introduction

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This is the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1. After writing off the sound card market again after Vista got rid of DirectSound, I get another email. It’s Hilbert. Coming to California again ? Nope. Auzentech’s got another sound card, this time they’re using X-Fi parts. My torpor faded rather fast.

A show of hands, please. How many people here have heard of Creative? Hm? Ah, the dude from Norway’s making a joke. Dude. Right, everybody knows by now that Creative is the company that makes the X-Fi. What you probably don’t know is that Creative has never licensed any of its chips to 3^rd parties, until now. This is quite an occasion, really (Hilbert: actually some Live! silicon was embedded on some mainboards, but soundcards I agree).

I hear it took some doing, though. Since business deals are rarely pretty, and the people at Auzentech are really nice, I had to wonder about this one. How did they do it? Whatever the events, in the end Auzentech convinced Creative that they should let them use their chips. Based on their last sound card, the X-Meridian (basically the best sound card I’ve ever tested, even if it did hog CPU), I had faith that Auzentech would do well.

For their next card Auzentech took the heart of the X-Fi and created a super-bionic X-Fi, the X-Fi Prelude. They have replaced almost every part of the original X-Fi and fitted it with upgraded parts all around the Creative’s CA20K APU. The digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are now high-quality AKM parts. The op-amp on the front channels are now upgradable. This is no ordinary sound card.

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One thing is perfectly clear: this thing promises to be a karaoke monster.

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