Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706

Philips Acoustic Edge PSC706

Friday, February 08, 2002

Technical Specifications

Audio Accelerator/Digital Signal Processor
ð PHILIPS ThunderBird Avenger ú DSP for extreme hardware acceleration

Codec ð AC97 CODEC

Digital Acceleration
ð 96 streams of 3D audio acceleration including position reverb
ð 256 streams of DirectSound accelerations and digital mixing
ð Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback
ð 64 hardware sample rate conversion channels up to 48khz
ð Wavetable and FM Synthesis

ð DirectInput devices
Comprehensive Connectivity
ð 5.1 (6 channel) channel analog output
ð Digital S/PDIF output (stereo, AC3 or DTS signal)
ð Digital S/PDIF input
ð MIDI in/Midi out/dual game port
ð Additional external inputs: Line in, Mic in
ð Additional internal inputs: CD in, Aux in,TAD in, S/PDIF in)
ð Special effects can be applied to any audio input including conversion of stereo to
quadraphonic or 5.1 output, QXpander, 2D-to-3D remapping and reverb

Music Synthesis
ð Up to 576 total wavetable synthesis voices
ð Reverb and chorus
ð 64 channel hardware CD quality (16 bit, 44.1khz) wavetable synthesizer with
5.9MB sample set
ð Hardware FM Synthesizer (real mode DOS)
ð 512 voice professional quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility

Digital Signal Processor Algorithms
ð QSound3DInteractive ú positional 3D for 2 speakers, 4 speakers or 5.1 speakers
ð QSound Multi Speaker System ú for quadraphonic or 5.1 channel output of stereo music,
video and games
ð QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX ú and DirectSound3D ú games
ð QSurround ú virtual 5.1 playback of DVDs using 2 speakers*
* Requires compatible soft-DVD player

System Requirements:
ð One available PCI 2.1-compliant slot
ð Genuine Intel Pentium class 133Mhz or faster processor
ð Intel or 100% compatible motherboard chip set
ð 16MB system RAM
ð CD-ROM for driver installation