Sound, it's everywhere! In everything we do, in the latest games they are making use of high tech sound for ambients and every other part of it. We all know movies have excellent sound tracks in them, but are you missing something with that onboard sound setup? HTPC's are very popular, and high end gaming PCs are as well, but the part that is most often overlooked in the sound card. Most people are happy with the onboard sound, but you can exponentially enhance your listening experience with a good sound card. Today for review, our friends at Bluegears have sent over their new b-Enspirer PCI sound card with the new, and probably best, Oxygen HD sound processor chip built in. This card has got everything covered, the whole range of Dolby, DTS, C-Media, 8-channels and much more. This is a card that you must have if you truly enjoy excellent quality sound. Read on to check it out...

Bluegears b-Enspirer PCI Sound Card

Reviewed by: Kristofer Brozio AkA Dracos

Sponsor: Bluegears

Tech Specs,Features or the Basic Info:

Bluegears b-Enspirer PCI sound card

Ultimate PCI sound solution for Gaming and Home Theater PCs.

8 Channels, 24-bit/192KHz, over 110 dB Oxygen 8788 PCI sound card.

Bluegears' b-Enspirer is a high quality PCI 8 channel sound that can be built into home audio electronics or personal computers to provide high fidelity sound playback and processing. b-Enspirer enables studio level audio performance. With support for 8 outbound streams, b-Enspirer can easily support the latest theater quality 5.1, 6.1 or even 7.1 surround sound systems. For enhanced playback, b-Enspirer enables the hardware that allows customers to experience the complete surround sound experience whether using four, or even two speakers.

Features:

DTS® Interactive - a real-time 5.1 channel encoder that takes 2 or more channels and encodes them into a DTS bit stream

DTS® NeoPC - an up-mix matrix that turns any 2 channel audio into 7.1 channel surround sound

Dolby® Digital Live(AC-3) real time 5.1 channel encoding bit-stream to facilitate the connection with CE AV receiver

Dolby® Pro-Logic IIx surround processor, spreading stereo audio into 7.1 channel surround sound

Renowned Dolby® Headphone technology, conveying 5.1 surround and 3D gaming audio over stereo headphones

The latest Dolby® Virtual Speaker solution, creating amazing virtual surround sound from a generic two-speaker configuration

C-Media FlexBass™ - configurable LFE channel crossover frequency(from 50 to 250Hz)

C-Media Magic Voice™, a popular feature for disguising voice in online chatting

C-Media Xear3D™ 7.1 Virtual Speaker Shifter technology

C-Media's unique Karaoke functions: Microphone Echo, Key-shifting

Individual 10-band EQ for each channel

27 global reverberation environments

Play 3D demo program

Supports most industrial standards of 3D sound for PC gaming, including EAX™ 1.0&2.0, A3D™ 1.0 and DirectSound™

Supports 7.1 CH digital audio playback for WinXP, 2K, ME, 98SE(Microsoft® DirectX V.9.0 and above is required.)

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Included in box:

Bluegears b-Enspirer Audio Card

TOSLINK Fiber Optic Digital Cable

English Owner's Manual

Drivers/Applications Installation CD

Warranty Card

Price $109.99 From NewEgg at time of Review