Enhance Your Music, Games and Movies With Xtreme Fidelity!
The Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card harnesses the full power of the Creative X-Fi Xtreme
Fidelity audio processor to Upgrade any existing library of MP3 or any music files to the Xtreme
Fidelity audio standard. With the X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 24-bit Crystalizer, MP3 music and movies are converted to Xtreme Fidelity, which delivers an experience beyond the original CD or DVD recordings.
With the included Creative MediaSource™ 3 software suite, users can easily SuperRip™ all their digital music permanently to Xtreme Fidelity. In addition, MediaSource 3 also allows users to further enhance their music content with single-click access to rich features like X-Fi CMSS-3D, Smart Cross-Fade and
Smart Volume Management. The Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card plays back audio with rich 109dB SNR quality.
Harness the full power of Sound Blaster X-Fi™ XtremeMusic by selecting one of its 3 usage modes:
• Entertainment Mode
• Gaming Mode
• Audio Creation Mode
For Xtreme Fidelity Music and Movies
• X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer™ enhances MP3s and movies to s better than they do on their original CD or DVD. ound
Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor your music and movie audio is sent through a two-step quality enhancement process. First the processor converts the audio into 24-bit/96kHz quality using its virtually transparent SRC
(Sample Rate Converter) engine. Then it remasters and selectively enhances the audio by analyzing and identifying which parts of the audio stream have been restricted/damaged during the compression stages to 16-bit and then to MP3.
Music Benefits: Low and high frequencies are enhanced while t he dynamics are improved. Overall your music will sound cleaner, smoother and will sparkle!
Movie Benefits: Explosions, gun-shots and high-impact audio sequences sound more realistic than ever before!
• X-Fi CMSS®-3D allows you to Upgrade your MP3 music and movies into surround sound with headphones or multichannel speakers.
Enjoy your stereo MP3s and movies in surround sound with X-Fi CMSS-3D technology. Instead of performing a basic upmixing of stereo content, the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor

intelligently remixes the audio into surround sound to match the speaker system you have (including headphones). It also uses advanced techniques to extract specific audio elements, like voice to the center channel and ambience to the surrounding channels, so your music and movies sound more alive than ever before!
Music Benefits: Convert static stereo music into amazing surround sound with multichannel speakers, plus enjoy the same surround sound experience with headphones!
Movie Benefits: When watching stereo or multichannel movies with headphones or speakers, X-Fi
CMSS-3D allows you to enjoy incredible surround sound that will amaze you.
• SuperRip™ allows you to rip your CDs into Xtreme Fidelity quality.
The X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer and X-Fi CMSS-3D features allow you to "SuperRip" CDs into Xtreme
Fidelity quality so you can now enjoy permanently enhanced music instead of low-quality MP3 files!
• Enjoy the latest cinematic technologies for the ultimate PC movie experience!
Experience incredible audio with THX certified quality and unbeatable movie sound with DTS-ES™ and
Dolby® Digital EX decoding!
For Ultimate Gaming Performance and Maximum Realism
• Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic delivers the fastest gaming performance ever!
A completely re-engineered game audio processing engine utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor allows Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic to deliver the fastest gaming performance ever seen, providing more than a 15% performance boost over motherboard audio solutions while simultaneously delivering full audio effects!
• X-Fi CMSS-3D delivers an amazingly realistic surround sound experience with headphones
Know exactly where your enemies are whether you're using headphones or speakers. You won't believe how good X-Fi CMSS-3D positional gaming audio is; in fact, it's so good you'll forget you're wearing headphones!
• EAX® ADVANCED HD™ 5.0 delivers incredibly realistic gaming audio!
Features like 128 voice support, EAX MacroFX, EAX PurePath and Environment FlexiFX set a new standard for EAX and realism available in gaming audio.
• X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer™ automatically Upgrades existing games into Xtreme Fidelity
Experience gaming audio that sounds more dynamic and realistic than you could ever imagine!
For Pristine Audio Recording Quality
• Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic offers high quality, featurerich recording.
Utilizing the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor, you'll get the most advanced features and effects of any audio processor for music and audio creation currently available,

delivering pristine audio playback quality. The Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor features a near transparent SRC engine that converts to and from any resolution at 136dB
THD+N, and also provides digital-matched recording capabilities in resolutions from 44.1kHz to 96kH z.
You'll also get support for ASIO recordings with latency as low as one millisecond, up to eight different hardware effects, 24-bit SoundFont® sampling, and 3DMIDI for amazing flexibility and recording results.
Technical Specs
• 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 96kHz sample rate
• 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 96kHz to analog 7.1
speaker output
• 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of stereo digital sources at 192kHz to stereo output
• 16-bit to 24-bit recording sampling rates: 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96k Hz
• ASIO 2.0 support at 16-bit/44.1kHz, 16-bit/48kHz, 24-bit/44.1kHz 24-bit/48kHz and 24bit/96kHz with direct monitoring
• Enhanced SoundFont support at up to 24-bit resolution
Audio Performance (Rated Output @ 2Vrms)
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted) o
Stereo Output: 109dB o
Front and Rear Channels : 109dB
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Tota o
Center, Subwoofer and Side Chann els: 109dB l Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (20kHz Low-pas s filter) = 0.004%
• Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ) = <10Hz to 46kHz
• Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/192kHz input) = <10Hz to 88kHz ( Stereo only)
Connectivity
• FlexiJack (Performing a 3-in-1 function, Digital Out / Line In / Microphone) via 3.50 mm minijack
• Line level o ut (Front / Rear / Center / Subwoofer / Rear Center) via 3.50 mm minijacks
• AUX_IN line-level analog input via 4-pin Molex connector on card
• One AD_Link (26 pin) connector for linking to the X-Fi I/O Console (Upgrade option)
Amazing Software Suite for Music & Movies
Entertainment Center
Entertainment Center allo ws you to play your music, watch movies and view picture slideshows without even touching your PC. Th is amazing software comes with a remote control and the coolest and simplest interface to give you total control over what, when a how to enjoy all your content! nd

Creative MediaSource™ 3
Creative MediaSource 3 is a fresh, innovative and slick digital audio player that allows you to manage, create, burn, play, record and SuperRip all of your digital music easily. MediaSource 3 also allows you to enhance all of your music content with single click access to new features like Smart Cross-Fade,
Smart Volume Management and X-Fi CMSS-3D.
Basic Requirements
• Genuine Intel® Pentium® III 1 GHz, AMD® 1 GHz processor or faster
• Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
•
256MB RAM
• 600MB of free hard disk space
• Available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card
• CD-ROM/CD-RW or CD/DVD-ROM required for software installation
• Graphics card with DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator
Additional Requirements (where applicable)
Gaming
• DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® compliant 3D graphics accelerator with at least 32 MB of texture
RAM
DVD-Video and DVD-Audio Playback
• 6x or faster DVD-ROM drive with one of the following recommended software DVD players:
InterVideo WinDVD or CyberLink PowerDVD (latest version recommended)
• 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 speakers for optimal listening experience
Entertainment Center and Remote Control Usage
• Graphics card with DirectX 9 compatible video drivers to ensure proper interaction between
Entertainment Center and software DVD players
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 97 or later to control PowerPoint presentations wirelessly using the remote control
Audio Creation
• 256 MB RAM and above is required for loading 24-bit SoundFont banks
Note
• Other applications, especially games, may have higher system requirements. Refer to the applications' documentation for details.
• Sound Blaster X-Fi™ PCI Card
• Quick Start Leaflet
•
Installation and Applications CD containing: o Drivers for Windows® XP o Creative Software Suite o Doom 3™ Sound Blaster EAX patch o User's Guide