Technical details:

I shall leave out the nitty gritty detail specs that is standard among all PCI sound cards. But, I'll just list down the usual stuff, eg. PCI Bus rev 2.1, APM, ACPI, PPMI, MPU401 MIDI, OPL3 FM Emulation, Sound Blaster Pro compatible, General MIDI. If I have time, I'll explain what these things are...

Back to businesss:

Chipset

DC'97 controller: VLSI Thunderbird 128 (jointly engineered by VLSI and Qsound)
AC'97 codec: Not confirmed, but I heard it's Sigmatel's 9704 Stereo 18-bit codec.
Separate rear channel DAC for additional 2 speakers

Hardware/Driver capabilities

Microsoft DirectSound channels: 128 (64 hardware + 64 software)
Q3D channels: 64 hardware
64 voice hardware wavetable (+hundreds of software voices) - yeah! it's a voice-war man!
QMSS (Qsound Multi-Speaker System) for expansion of stereo to 4 speakers
Qsurround 2 or 4 speaker virtualisation of DVD multi-channel audio
Headphone driving circuitry

Useful Software

[ Home ] [ Tech Info ] [ Tests & Measurements ] [ Verdict ]

Send mail to aztechetic@yahoo.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Alternately, go to the Feedback page.
Email webmaster: mailto:jayzzz@geocities.com
Copyright © 1999 Aztechétic
Last modified: February 11, 1999