High-End Audio: Creative and Terratec

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Platinum EX, Continued

For outputs, there is a headphone socket on a 1/4" jack plug on the front, with volume control similar to that of general outputs. At the back, a 3.5 mm jack plug allows you to link Creative's special cable with a digital speaker system. The classic S/P DIF digital inputs and outputs are also present with two Toslink connectors on the front and two Cinch plugs at the back.

For the MIDI interface, Creative has wisely abandoned its use of mini-DIN. There are two classic DIN IN/OUT ports at the back. Finally, two FireWire plugs are available on the front and back. The second socket at the back is for a link to the PCI card, but it has no audio connection. CDs are normally played in digital mode, a logical choice for a card in this category.

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Audigy 2 Platinum EX
Interface PCI
Audio chip Audigy 2 CA0102-IAT
Max. playback sampling 192 kHz
Digital-analog conversion 24 bits
ASIO 24 bits / 96 kHz
MIDI/ game port yes
Input
On-board none
Internal none
External "2x line-in, 1x mic/line-in, coaxial & optical digital, 2x FireWire, MIDI"
Output
Card 3 line-out (6.1)
External 1x headphones, digital & optical digital-out, MIDI
DVD & Cinema
Standards "Dolby Digital, DTS via S/PDIF-out"
Configuration up to 6.1
DVD Audio yes, up to 92 kHz
3D Gaming Audio
Standards "DS3D, A3D, EAX 1.0/2.0, Advanced HD"
Configuration 2x 6.1
MIDI
Hardware synthesizer 32 channels, 64 voices
Software synthesizer Creative, 16 channels