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WHAT’S INCLUDED

You will find the following items in your Acoustic Edge™ package:

1 – Acoustic Edge™ sound card in a anti-static pouch

1 – Acoustic Edge™ installation CD

1 – Analog audio cable to connect CD/DVD drive to sound card

1 – Line Out cable

1 – S/PDIF cable

1 – Acoustic Edge™ user’s manual

1 – Product registration card

Bundled applications may be included on the installation CD or on separate media

depending on the Acoustic Edge™ model.

Please retain the Yamaha Certificate of Authenticity.The included serial number will

be needed during software installation.

* Not all product features supported using this operating system.

EY FEATURES

• 256 streams of DirectSound acceleration and digital mixing

• 96 streams of 3D audio acceleration including positional reverb, obstruction

and occlusion

• Full-duplex, 48khz digital recording and playback

• Philips ThunderBird Avenger™ high performance audio accelerator

• Hardware DSP accelerated QSound 3D algorithms including

QSound3DInteractive™ positional 3D

QSound Environmental Modeling for EAX™ and DS3D™ games

QSound Multi Speaker System™ for quad or 5.1 output of stereo sources

QXpander™ for 3D enhancement of stereo

DVD QSurround™ 5.1 speaker virtualization over stereo speakers

(compatible SoftDVD player required)

• 576 voice total wavetable synthesis music polyphony

512 Voice professional quality soft-synth with XG and GM compatibility

64 channel hardware wavetable synthesizer

• Dual gameport accelerator with legacy and digital joy-stick modes

• DirectSound™, DirectSound3D™, EAX™ 1.0 , EAX™2.0/I3D Level 2, and A3D™

1.0 compatibility

• Stereo, 4 channel surround , 5.1 speaker or headphone output

• QMSS™ enhanced DVD playback mode (compatible SoftDVD player required)

INIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Installation of your Philips Acoustic Edge™ requires the following minimum hardware

and operating system:

• One available PCI 2.1 compliant slot

• Intel Pentium

class or 100% compatible 133Mhz or faster processor

• Intel

or 100% compatible motherboard chip set

• 16MB system RAM

• CD ROM for driver installation

• Stereo, 4 channel surround powered speakers, 5.1 speakers or headphones

• Windows

95,Windows

98,Windows NT

4.0 (SP3)*,Windows

2000

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