The Platinum edition is shipped with an internal Audigy drive that is easy to access and is equipped with the most comprehensive connectors for analog and digital devices, including professional audio gear, home stereo receivers, optical DACs, MIDI devices and DV camcorders. It also features a high capacity SB1394 which can be used to connect to IEEE1394 compliant devices such as DV camcorders, the future SB1394 NOMAD Jukebox, external hard drives, and high speed CD-RW drives. 

The Sound Blaster Audigy cards work with the following standards:

• Windows® 98, Windows® 98SE, Windows® Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or Windows® Millennium (Windows XP drivers may be downloaded from www.soundblaster.com)
• Sound Blaster MIDI and General MIDI
• Sound Blaster PCI
• EAX
• EAX ADVANCED HD
• Microsoft® DirectSound®, DirectSound3D™, and derivatives
• PCI 2.1 compliant
• AC'97 compliant
• Dolby® Digital
• ASIO™
• SoundFont® 2.1

Hardware Specifications:

32-bit Professional Quality Effects Engine

• Creative Audigy™ patented effects processor
• Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, normalizer, pitch shifter, or distortion across any audio source
• Capable of processing, mixing, and positioning audio streams using up to 131 available hardware channels
• Full 32-bit digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain, eliminating noise from the signal
• Customizable Plug-In Effects Architecture allows new Audio effects to be downloaded via CreativeWare

High Definition Audio Quality

• Playback of 64 audio channels, each with its own independent sample rate
• 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48kHz sample rate
• 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 48kHz to analog 5.1 speaker output
• 16-bit recording with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1 and 48kHz
• Supports Sony®/ Philips® Digital Interface (S/PDIF) format input signal of up 40 24-bit/96kHz quality
• S/PDIF output up to 24-bit resolution at selectable sampling rate of 44.1, 48, or 96kHz
• Low latency multi-track recording with ASIO&trade support

EAX®, EAX® ADVANCED HD™, Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology

• Hardware acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games
• User-selectable EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes simulating various acoustic environments
• Advanced time-scaling
• Audio cleanup
• Upgradeable 3D audio architecture for future improvements
• Dolby® Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and digital modes
• Optimized, user-selectable settings for two, four, six speakers, headphones, and external A/V amplifiers
• Creative Multi Speaker Surround&trade (CMSS) technology places any monaural or stereo source in a 360^o audio space

Realistic Wave-Table Synthesis

• Creative Audigy™ music synthesis engine
• 64-voice hardware polyphony with patented 8-point interpolation technology (from Emu® Systems, Inc.) that reduces distortion to inaudible levels.
• Unlimited sample can be loaded into host memory for professional music reproduction (limited to available system memory size)
• Scalable PCI Wave-Table synthesis architecture with multi-timbre capability
• 48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kits

* Specifications are based on digital to analog audio playback (e.g. CDDA, WAV, MP3, Dolby Digital).

Sound Blaster® Audigy™ Audio Performance

• Frequency Response at -3 dBr: <10hz to 22 kHz
• Signal to Noise Ratio (A-Weighted): 100db
• Crosstalk (left/Right and vice versa): -100db
• Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (A-Weighted): 0.004%

  * Specifications are based on digital to analog audio playback (e.g. CDDA, WAV, MP3, Dolby Digital).

SB1394 Connectivity

• High speed connection to IEEE® 1394 enabled devices with up to 400 Mbps transfer rate
• Hot-plug support for ease of connecting or disconnecting external devices
• Interconnection of up to 63 devices for peer-to-peer communication

Hardware Settings: Software selectable via Plug and Play

Connectors:

Onboard Connectors on the Sound Blaster Audigy cards (Model SB0090)

• Analog/Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer/6-channel SPDIF Output)
• Microphone In
• Line In
• Line Level Out (Front)/Headphone out
• Line Level Out (Rear)
• SB1394 port
• Telephone Answering Device In
• Analog CD Audio In
• Digital CD In
• Aux In
• Internal SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)
• Expansion header to the Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option
• Expansion header to an external 15-pin MIDI/Joystick port
• MIDI/Joystick port is available on a separate Audigy Extension card

Front panel connectors on the internal Audigy Drive

The internal Audigy Drive is shipped with the Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum only.

• PCM S/PDIF In and Out (RCA/Coaxial Jack)
• Optical S/PDIF IN and OUT
• Headphone Out (1/4" Stereo jack with Volume Control)
• Line In 2 (1/4" Stereo jack, shared with Microphone in 2)
• Microphone In 2 (1/4" Stereo jack with gain control)
• MIDI In (mini DIN)
• MIDI Out (mini DIN)
• Stereo Auxiliary In (2x RCA/Coaxial jack)
• SB1394 port
• Infa-red receiver
• Power connector (internal)

Minimum System Requirements

• Genuine Intel® Pentium 266MHz, AMD® K6 300 MHz or faster Processor
• Intel®, AMD® or 100% compatible motherboard chipset
• 64MB System RAM (128MB recommended)
• 600MB of free hard disk space
• Windows® 98, Windows® 98SE, Windows® Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000 or Windows® Millennium (Windows XP drivers may be downloaded from www.soundblaster.com
• Available half-length PCI 2.1 compliant slot for Sound Blaster® Audigy™ card
• Available adjacent slot for Joystick/MIDI bracket (optional)
• Headphones or Powered speakers (available separately)
• CD-ROM drive for software installation
• Available 5 1/4" PC drive Bay (for Sound Blaster Audidy Drive! shipped with Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum only).

Additional Requirements

• CPU: Genuine Intel® Pentium® II 350MHz/MMX or AMD® 450MHz/3Dnow! for SB1394 applications or games
• SB1394: works only on Windows® 98SE^*, 2000 and ME.
• IEEE® 1394 cable: available separately.
• DV Camcorder Editing: 128MB recommended for capture and editing. Ultra DMA hard disk with 1GB workspace (ATA-100, 7,200rpm with 6GB recommended).
• DVD: At least a 2nd generation DVD-ROM drive with these recommended soft-DVD players: Intervideo's WinDVD 2000, or CyberLink's PowerDVD 3.0 and above
• Internal Radio: Requires at least a 56Kbps modem and an active Internet connection before running the application.

* Note:

• Certain features or functionality such as SB1394 application are not supported by Windows® first edition. We recommend that you upgrade to Windows 98SE or later versions.
   
• Setup under Windows 98SE requires the original Windows 98SE installation CD. Certain applications do not work with Dual Processor support under Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000.
   
• Included applications may need higher system requirements or microphone for basic functionality.

Additional Information

http://www.soundblaster.com/audigy/

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigyplatinum/

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigyplatinum/specs.asp