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Technical Details

  • All the power and features of the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi family of sound cards bundled into one
  • Delivers the highest fidelity of all the X-Fi products, with pristine 116dB SNR audio playback quality
  • Audio Processor delivers the fastest ever gaming performance
  • 24-bit Crystalizer enhances MP3s & Movies to sound better than they do on their original CD or DVD
  • External I/O box features comprehensive connections, easy-to-use knobs and a remote control
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 4.5 x 11.6 inches ; 6.4 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
  • ASIN: B000BFHWX2
  • Item model number: 70SB055000002
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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    #67 in  Electronics > Computers & Accessories > Internal Desktop Components > Sound Cards
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: May 2, 2006

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Features

Pro-audio gear, top-shelf home theater sound, and gaming domination in one solution

  • Best in class audio and music creation features
  • Fastest, most realistic game play
  • Makes MP3s sound better than CDs 


Audio Creation Mode

Grab the highest quality, most feature-rich sound card in its class
Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro delivers the highest fidelity of all Sound Blaster X-Fi products with pristine 116dB SNR audio playback at up to 24-bit/192kHz.

Record your latest track
This smart sound card gives you a dedicated audio creation mode that lets you record at up to 96kHz or digitally matched to the frequency you chose. Plus the X-Fi I/O Console offers digital and analog connections for all of your audio gear.

Put a powerful audio conversion engine to work for you
Record at your preferred audio resolution without worrying about the final output quality. This audio engine converts your recordings to any resolution at near transparency (136dB THD+N).

ASIO Enjoy low latency ASIO recording
Get ASIO recording with latency as low as one millisecond and zero CPU load for the most precise audio recording capabilities in any class!
Audio Creation Mode Access advanced music creation features
Use up to eight different 24-bit hardware effects—all of which are accessible through the special Audio Creation Mode interface and can be used through any of the inputs. Plus, you'll enjoy hardware synthesis capabilities with 24-bit SoundFont sampling.


Entertainment Mode

X-Fi Crystalizer Make MP3s sound better than CDs
X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.
X-Fi CMSS-3D Turn stereo music and movies into surround sound
X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.

Enjoy cinematic DVD movie sound
Get THX®-certified surround plus cinematic DVD movie playback with PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital®-EX decoding (free download with purchase).

Control it all from your couch
Browse through your music, movies and pictures with the X-Fi wireless remote and Entertainment Center software. 


Gaming Mode

X-RAM Boost game audio performance even further
Free up system memory and improve your audio quality and performance in games such as Battlefield 2, Prey, Quake 4, Doom 3 and others that take advantage of X-RAM.

EAX AHD 5.0 Battle in a 3D soundscape
Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. Take your games to the next level with EAX® ADVANCED HD™1 sound effects.

Here's the speed you need
This powerful audio processing engine boosts real game performance by more than 15% over ordinary motherboard audio.

Hear your enemies before they find you
Slip on your headphones or put your multichannel speakers to work for you with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.

Revitalize your compressed game sounds
X-Fi Crystalizer makes gunshots sound crisp and sharp and explosions really boom for the most intense gaming experience yet.

Enjoy clearer voice chat
Talk it up and hear the difference Sound Blaster X-Fi makes. Every voice comes through loud and clear.



Product Description

Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro is the top of the line answer to those looking for the very best in audio creation and home entertainment - with all the power and features of the entire Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi family of sound cards bundled into one ultimate solution! These include 24-bit Crystalizer, CMSS-3D surround, and 3DMIDI. What you get is the greatest Xtreme Fidelity quality, crystal clear audio, with unbelievable surround sound - even for MIDI recordings. Unique to Sound Blaster Elite Pro are professional-quality digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and an incredible 116 dB SNR. Also providing for exceptional music creation are advanced features like 24-bit SoundFont sampling, ASIO ultra-low latency for precise recordings, a built-in pre-amp for direct recording, and high-impedance inputs for electric guitars. PC gaming has never had it better too. You'll be amazed with the accuracy of EAX ADVANCED HD's breath-taking ambience reproduction. Take your game to a new level with X-RAM, the huge 64MB dedicated on-board audio memory for higher quality gaming audio and performance. Bring the cinema right to your living room - Sound Blaster X-Fi is THX certified and supports the latest home theater standards like Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES for a complete home entertainment solution. The Sound Blaster Elite Pro comes with an external I/O box that has comprehensive connections, easy-to-use knobs, a remote control, plus Creative MediaSource software to give you maximum control. Enhanced SoundFont support of up to 24-bit resolution 64MB of X-RAM Requires available PCI 2.1 slot for the audio card installation into a desktp PC running Windows XP Two RCA jacks for coaxial SPDIF input and output Shared Auxiliary input /Phono input via RCA stereo jacks 2 optical connectors for optical SPDIF input and output 2 standard MIDI female

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A New definition to Sound Quality, October 24, 2005
I have this card for a week, and what I can tell you is that this card has a quality that I've never heard from any sound card - the sound is so clean, balanced and accurrate.
of coure, you will need a good set of spekaers.
the CMSS surround is much better than Dolby Prologic 2 and DTS neo 6 for both music and movies.
if you plan to connect the DIN cable for Integrated speakers control with the Megaworks or Gigaworks, you should know that it's not working, but Creative is going to add support for those speakers in the following drivers.
I didn't like the new 24-bit Crystalizer sound, but belive me you will not need that feature, just use good mp3 player like Winamp 5+ MAD mp3 decoder plug and ASIO plug for the output.
I had many sound card like the Audigy 2 , Audigy 2 ZS, Audigy 4 Pro, ESI Juli@, M-audio Revolution...
and none of theme even close to this card!!!
worth every $$$!!!!
I recommend you buying from amazon beacuse of thier great service and warrnty, I could't do that because I am outside USA.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Overall a Great Sound System, May 12, 2007
Well as others have said, the sound from the X-Fi system does make you go wow! The crystalizer generates body, the CMSS-3D generates depth, to music which is just missing in MP3 files (especially). The cmss-3d give an amazing simulation of surround sound, btw.

The X-Fi Elite Pro comes with a large breakout box with controls for adjustment of the crystalizer, cmss-3d, EAX and 3DMDI which are not present on the internal box -- although these really only routed to a software control and so the internal box would be a good alternative. The external breakout box needs only a supplied 26pin cable (looks like a vga cable to me!) to work. All the plugs and cables supplied are gold plated. This external box, btw, does not have firewire -- not too sure if the internal boxes do (the older systems used to).

FYI: If you buy the standard card you can update to either the internal or external breakout box; even if you buy the internal breakout box version I believe you can upgrade to the external box in the future, as the connections are present for either box. However, the X-Fi Elite box is shipped with only an external connection! Although, curiously, it does come with 64 MB of XRAM for internal sound processing, of ("some") games.

On a minor problem point, first un-install ALL the other sound drivers you can from your system before installing the sound card because conflicts are hard to sort out after (I unfortunately found this out the hard way). Also the shipped drivers will need updating when you get the card; simple to do from the website. I found that my breakout box controls didn't work until I loaded up the new drivers!

On the software side, the unit is shipped with cubase LE, an upgraded Wavelab Lite (which has some great filters and wave effects), a demo games disk (to illustrate X-Fi ability in gaming I suppose) and patches for Doom3 and Unreal Tournament. Other software includes an array of sound management controls which should be enough for anyone but the most demanding of sound engineers!

All in all if you want the best sound from your music files, games or you want to process music then one of these cards will be for you! I suppose I could have given it 5 stars but I had trouble loading all the software (some times it hung for no reason -- it could have been checked better) and so 1 star off for this.

The only need for the breakout box is, of course, if you want attach sound a variety of inputs (particularly optical). The external breakout box then has the advantage of being cute and easier to adjust. This would probably be good in both a home entertainment environment or if you are doing a lot of sound engineering.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Audiophiles Awake and be Amazed!, January 31, 2007
By Donald L. Swartz "DanbySharpe" (Moreno Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Vista didn't wow me, but this sound card sure did. If you are an audiophile and want the best sound card, this is it. Sound reproduction on a computer that rivals a concert hall. Listening to Vivaldi in 3dmidi on 5.1 surroundsound speakers was a real treat.
The caveats to this card are few now that the drivers are up to date. I had no problem with installation and operation. I did however need to upgrade my power supply to 600 watts. I am also adding a dedicated SATA hard drive for audio midi and wave storage.
This card obsoletes many speaker systems so be prepared to upgrade there if you want the best in sound that this card offers.
The bundled software allows for music creation to hobbyist and semi-pro in 24 bit soundfont midi and 24bit/96khz wave. The learning curve for some of this software is higher than most though. The package comes with all documentation on disk.
The three separate operation modes allow gamers, composers, and listeners equal opportunity to enjoy the features of this sound card. For me, listening to some of my old midi compositions come to life, and being able to do a mixdown in 24bit96khz make this sound card indispensable.

Can a new sound card make your music sound better than a live performance?
Did Deep Blue beat Grandmaster Gary Kasparov? Think about it.
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