Advanced sound card which represents the perfect upgrade from basic motherboard audio to immersive cinematic surround sound. With its advanced E-MU chipset designed to process the legendary EAX reverb engine, it supports superb 7.1 multi-channel audio. It also features an signal-to-noise ratio of 106dB and the Sound Blaster Audigy Rx Control Panel, a dedicated PC software that allows user to fully control every aspect of the sound card. The sound card has two microphone inputs as well as the Stereo Direct output for listening to the pure and unprocessed music at the amazing bit rate of 24-bit 192 kHz. It is also equipped with the 600-oh headphone amplifier to drive the most demanding of studio headphones and offers reduced latency with the support of Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) drivers for high-quality, low-latency audio recordings. The sound card comes with recording software such as Creative WaveStudio and Creative Smart Recorder, as well as the EAX Studio software for controlling and performing detailed adjustments to all of the EAX Advanced HD settings.