If you are looking for a sound card that enhances your listening enjoyment - at a price that fits your pocket - Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic is it. The latest in Creative Technology's offerings of cutting-edge sound cards, Sound Blaster X-Fi harnesses the power of the Sound Blaster Audigy series and betters its features! Never before has audio fidelity been so crystal clear. Be immersed in breath-taking surround sound, be it during music listening, movie watching or PC gaming. Upgrade your existing library of MP3s and other music files to DVD-Audio quality with 24-bit Crystalizer. Or turn your stereo music into amazing multi-channel surround sound with CMSS-3D. With Creative MediaSource, you can easily Super-Rip CDs into Xtreme Fidelity quality audio permanently! Sound Blaster X-Fi's THX certification, Dolby® Digital EX and DTS-ES™ support means your PC hub can be transformed into a virtual home theater.

Our breakthrough 3DMIDI technology lets you place orchestral MIDI instruments and move them around in a 3-dimensional space. You can now record in the comfort of your own home to the highest precision with X-Fi's ASIO low latency and a rich 109 dB SNR quality playback. Sound Blaster X-Fi has ushered in a new age of home digital entertainment.
Harness the full power of Sound Blaster X-Fi™ XtremeMusic by selecting one of its 3 usage modes:
               

• Entertainment Mode
  For Xtreme Fidelity Music and Movies
  
  
• X-Fi 24-bit Crystalizer™ enhances MP3s and movies to sound better than they do on their original CD or DVD.

  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.