One revolutionary feature that you just barely touched upon is the card's support for home theater use. It is the only multi-channel audio card out there that supports speaker positioning - as in you specify how far each individual speaker is from the listening position. The card then takes that information and delays the signal in proportion to how close each speaker is from the listener so that the sound arriving at the listener's ears from all speakers is correctly time-aligned. In addition, the support for per-speaker (or really, per-pair) cross-over and bass-redirection is very important too, although other sound cards do have more limited forms of tthis specific functionality. The Circle-Surround Music and Theater modes are also top-of-the-line processing on par, if not exceeding that of Dolby Prologic II (which only supports 5.1, while the Circule-Surround on the Revo supports all 7.1 speakers)

So, from a gaming perspective you are right, the card is almost de-evolutionary if anything. But from a home theater perspective, this card combines a number of features that have rarely seen implementation and usually poor implementation at that, before in consumer-grade PC audio equipment. That's why the card is revolutionary and why it is at the center of a growing number of people's home audio systems.

Another card by M-Audio, the Audiophile 24/96, is a great product at its price level for people who are seeking to use serious audio applications which do not require a multiport breakout-box. Nothing else I've heard at its price point (around $150, +- $40) comes close -- very low noise floor, and the solid RCA connectors are a giant step up from the eighth-inch stereo-mini connectors that other cards use. It has coaxial SPDIF I/O -- not optical, alas -- but supports MIDI. People who are interested in serious (but entry-level) audio applications should check out this board and skip over the gamer-oriented offerings of other corporations.

Sad that You not Used nVidia's SoundStorm from nForce2 motherboard in test (of course with latest beta drivers) ...

I would appreciate if you included your assessment of the RECORDING feature of this card, or whether it actually works.

I desperately want to get decent sound from my G4, OS 9 or OS X. Just good sound -- doesn't have to be superlative to exceed what it now has. Something that would be as good, or better than, Sound Blaster Live.

I already have a good stereo, amplifier, speakers, CD player, and a phono for old LPs. But that's two rooms away.

What can I do? Advice wanted!

I'm working on a computer dealer company here in the Phils. I would like to know if what company is the authorized distributor of the M audio sound card here in our country...hope you can provide me their contact details and email address. we would appreciate your soonest reply on this thru my email address: salgones@dctech.com.ph

please send to me Resolution 7.1 sound card price.

Currently I have an onboard Realtek ALC650. I consider myself a picky audiofile, preferring WAVs or AAC over MP3s because I believe MP3s plain suck in terms of quality, no matter how you encode them. Anyway, my question is, does the Revolution 7.1 really sound any better than the integrated ALC650? If I was sitting listening to a WAV file (16bit/44.1kHz), would I notice a difference enough to make me feel good that I spent $91 on a new soundcard? Thanks to anyone in advance.

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Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Sound Card

Does this sound card come with a line-OUT connector? It has a DIGITAL-out connector but is this the same as LINE-out? Can the digital-out output analog sound format? I am not very technically knowledgeable about sound cards.

Would someone offer some help?

Thanks.

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Are there any plugins, like compressors, reverbs, delays,eccc that I can use on my project?
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