M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Bedienungsanleitung

Revolution 7.1

Surround Sound Audio Card

Reviewer’s Guide

REVIEWER’S GUIDE

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REVIEWER’S GUIDE

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Contents

A Note To Product Reviewers 2

Key Editorial Contacts 3

Today’s Audio Cards: Pro Sound at Low Prices 4

Top 5 Cool Things To Do With The Revolution 7.1 5

About The Revolution 7.1 6

Product Info Box 9

Te sting The Revolution 7.1 10

Product Specifications 28

Bass Management 30

7.1 Surround Sound Receivers 32

DVD Test Scenes 33

Music Listening Samples 35

Additional Resources 36

Company Backgrounder 37

Press Release 38

REVIEWER’S GUIDE

A Note To Product Reviewers

We’re pleased that you have chosen to review M-Audio’s Revolution 7.1

high-definition surround-sound audio card. It’s a product we are very ex-

cited about. This guide provides you with editorial background information

to assist you in writing your review. It is not, however, a replacement for the

user guide; you should use the two together. We hope you’ll find this re-

viewer’s guide useful. We’d like your feedback on this document and look

forward to reading your published review.

Additional resources are available to assist you with your review. A list of

telephone contacts is provided on the next page. Don’t hesitate to call when

any question—big or small—arises. If this guide accomplishes one goal, it

is that we want to make sure you publish a factually accurate review, re-

gardless of your opinion of the product itself. Also, be sure to read the

printed documentation that is included with the product you received. Fi-

nally, the M-Audio Web site, located at www.m-audio.com provides up-to-

the-minute information.

About our company name: Midiman Inc. is changing its legal name to

M-Audio Inc. In your review, please refer to “M-Audio,” not Midiman.

Product photos: You can download high-resolution photographs of the

Revolution 7.1 audio card from www.m-audio.com/company/images.php.

REVIEWER’S GUIDE

Key Editorial Contacts

As you conduct your review, we encourage you to call with questions. Though

we’ve worked hard to ensure that you have all the facts needed to write an accurate

and comprehensive review, occasionally a question may arise that isn’t covered in

this guide. For publication purposes, refer your readers to the M-Audio Web site,

www.m-audio.com.

Media/Editorial/Press-relations contact:

Jason Ivan

Director of Product Marketing

M-Audio Consumer Products Group

M-Audio

E-mail: [email protected]

Cell: 408.209.8901

Technical support contact:

Erik Andersen

Technical Specialist

M-Audio

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 626.445.2842 x381

Public-relation agency contact:

Valerie Foster

Shotwell Public Relations

Santa Clara, Calif.

E-mail: valerie@shotwellpr.com

Phone: (408) 855-8608 x102

Refer your readers to:

www.m-audio.com

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Today’s Audio Cards:

Pro Sound at Low Prices

Two-channel stereo just doesn’t cut it anymore as users

demand high-quality surround sound for their DVD

enabled computers

OMPUTER audio has come a long way. Just a few years ago, PC and Mac

users settled for a pair of tinny, low-fidelity, battery-powered speakers

driven by a mediocre sound card that generated a lot of background noise.

How that has changed! As savvy consumers have become accustomed to

low-cost, high-performance, easy-to-use surround-sound DVD home theater sys-

tems, they are placing similar demands on computer audio—just as they did with

computer video. The Revolution 7.1 answers these demands by delivering profes-

sional-quality, high-definition audio signals to as many as eight speakers.

As video technology advanced, sound lagged. Now, major vendors are continually

introducing new technologies that support multi-channel surround sound and pro-

mote media as a key purpose for the computer:

•Apple Computer: “Digital Hub”

•Intel: “The center of your digital world”

•Microsoft: Windows Media Center Edition

In addition, “power gaming” demands the ultimate in both video and audio. Most

movies are now released to DVD with at least six audio channels (Dolby Digital

5.1), and, in some cases, with DTS ES 6.1, or Dolby Digital EX 6.1 (which Dolby

and THX recommend playing on a 7.1 system). Two new music formats, SACD

(Super Audio CD) and DVD-audio are likely to become increasingly important.

Yesterday’s audio cards simply can’t keep up; they’re mired in hopelessly obsolete

1990s technology.

Part

M-AUDIO’S

MISSION IS

TO BRING

PRO-QUALITY

AUDIO PER-

FORMANCE TO

THE MASS

MARKET IN

EASY-TO-USE,

AFFORDABLE

PRODUCTS

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Top 5 Cool Things To Do

With The Revolution 7.1

The Revolution 7.1 offers phenomenal high-definition sound and provides to up

eight channels of professional-quality audio—all for less than $100. But so what?

It’s what your readers can do with the product that matters. Here are some examples

you can share with your publication’s audience.

Games: You’ve never heard games sound like this before! Surround your PC with

up to seven speakers and a subwoofer for a totally awesome gaming experience.

Games enabled with Sensaura simply sound amazing. And M-Audio hasn’t forgot-

ten about the thousands of games encoded with two-channel stereo. They’ll sound

better than ever, thanks to Revolution 7.1’s Circle Surround II technology.

Virtual DVD hardware player: Turn any DVD-equipped Mac or PC into an awe-

some-sounding hardware DVD player.

Digital recording: Convert those old vinyl record albums to professional-quality

high-definition digital audio. With The Revolution 7.1 and a user’s favorite digital

recording software, those precious old albums can be preserved in glorious 24-

bit/96kHz fidelity.

Home theater: The Revolution 7.1’s higher 24-bit/192kHz fidelity and 107 dB dy-

namic range greatly improve the listening experience of computer-based playback

of CDs, MP3s and Internet radio. The Revolution 7.1 elevates computer-based

audio to the level where the computer can play a viable roll as an audio source in a

sophisticated home entertainment system. Internet radio, for example, can be real-

ized in sufficiently high fidelity to warrant connecting the computer to the home

entertainment system. And with new high-definition TV tuner cards and high-

quality DVD playback, the PC is more capable than ever of replacing a stack of

home theater components. The best quality surround sound is key.

Presentations: Make business presentations memorable by enveloping an audience

with seven channels of high-definition surround sound and a seat-rattling sub-

woofer. PowerPoint never had it so good.

We know of no other audio card that offers support

for 7.1 surround, a coaxial digital connection with

AC3 and DTS support, high-definition 24-

bit/192kHz audio fidelity, and virtual surround

sound from only two speakers—let alone at a street

price of about $99.99.

WITH UP TO

SEVEN CHAN-

NELS OF SUR-

ROUND SOUND

AND A SUB-

WOOFER,

GAMES AND

PRESENTA-

TIONS HAVE

NEVER HAD IT

SO GOOD.

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About The Revolution 7.1

With this card, gamers, media enthusiasts, and business

users can add speakers and supercharge their systems

with eight channels of pro-quality audio

HE Revolution 7.1 is half the size of the stereo sound cards of just a few

years ago, yet it delivers up to eight separate channels of sound, is far qui-

eter, and is priced less than $100. It includes full (not trial) versions of Tony

Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, WinDVD4 Dolby Digital EX Edition,VJ Lite, and

trial versions of other software.

Key Revolution 7.1 Features

Surround Sound

Up to eight separate channels—left, center,

right, surround (2), and surround center/rear

(2) plus subwoofer—completely envelope users.

Surround effect

from two speakers

SRS TruSurround XT technology gives sur-

round-sound effect from a traditional stereo

two-speaker set-up or headphones.

Convert stereo into

true surround sound

Advanced Circle Surround II technology creates

true multichannel surround sound from stereo

MP3s, CDs, and other audio.

Ready for most

encoded formats

Supports Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3), Dolby Pro

Logic, DTS, and other encoded multi-channel

formats.

Best signal-to-noise

ratio available*

Even the 106dB SNR of Creative’s Sound Blas-

ter Audigy 2 Platinum eX can’t match The

Revolution 7.1’s SNR of 107dB.

*source: www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy2_platinum_ex/specs.asp

Part

Time to Upgrade:

Stuck with poor

sound for years,

many computer

users don’t know

they can upgrade

their sound card

and speakers to get

professional, high-

quality audio. Now

is the time.

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What Makes It So Good?

Glad you asked—and we’re sure your readers will want to know, too. Here are the

two key factors in achieving superior sonic performance in the Revolution 7.1.

First, we’re using cutting-edge components, including the Envy 24HT chip from

Via Technologies and components from AKM Semiconductor. These have only

recently become available and they allow us to generate such high audio quality.

Second is the critical issue—and some may say art form—of circuit board design.

The board layout and design were done in such a way as to keep the audio signals

as clean as possible. This is more difficult than it would seem. Laying the wrong

trace over the wrong area, or placing it too close to an electronic component can

introduce noise into the signal, degrading sound quality. For over a decade, M-

Audio has developed professional audio cards used commercially to master albums

and to do other high-quality audio work, including playback. We’ve taken our ex-

pertise in the professional audio market and brought it to the consumer market.

Isn’t a Computer’s Internal Sound Capability Enough?

Even though an audio card can reproduce signals across the entire frequency spec-

trum (20Hz to 20kHz ), that doesn’t mean it does so with smooth, linear response.

Dynamic range and noise may be sub-par, too. The Revolution 7.1 features excel-

lent linear frequency response, delivers superior dynamic range, and virtually elimi-

nates noise.

But Aren’t CDs and MP3s Are Recorded In Two-Channel Stereo?

They sure are. And we’ve taken care of that. After investing in a Revolution 7.1

audio card, seven powered speakers, and a powered subwoofer, users will undoubt-

edly remember that their CD and MP3 music collections were recorded mostly in

traditional two-channel stereo. Circle Surround II from SRS solves this shortcom-

ing, using advanced algorithms to transform two-channel stereo (or even mono)

source material into real multichannel audio for playback through a full comple-

ment of surround speakers. This is the same technology that many high-end home-

theater receivers use.

What If A User Doesn’t Have A 7.1 Speaker Set?

Revolution 7.1 works great in surround modes other than 7.1. It fully supports 4.0,

4.1, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.1 as well as 7.1 surround, so you can use almost any surround

speaker set. And users who have only two speakers or headphones can still enjoy

the effect of surround sound. TruSurround XT places virtual individual surround

channels where they should be, as though a full complement of speakers had been

installed. This capability transforms 5.1 or 6.1 multichannel sources, such as Dolby

Digital or Pro Logic encoded DVDs or movies into virtual surround from a pair of

stereo speakers or headphones. It can even enhance non-surround material such as

music and some games.

WE’VE TAKEN

M-AUDIO’S

EXPERTISE IN

DEVELOPING

PROFESSIONAL

SOUND CARDS

AND BROUGHT

IT INTO THE

CONSUMER

MARKET.

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Outclasses Audigy 2 At A Lower Price

For a little less money than Creative’s new Audigy 2 sound card, the M-Audio

Revolution 7.1 offers more audio channels, higher fidelity, lower distortion, and

twice the platform support. The following chart compares major specifications of

the Revolution 7.1 with the Creative Audigy 2 and the Hercules Gamesurround

Fortissimo III. In every category, the Revolution 7.1 is superior.

Competitive Matrix

Revolution vs. Audigy 2, Gamesurround

M-Audio

Revolution 7.1

Creative

Audigy 2

Hercules

Gamesurround

Fortissimo III

Price

MSRP $119.99 $129.99 $49.99

*Street $99.99 $119.99 $49.99

Audio Fidelity

Stereo 24-bit/192kHz 24-bit/192kHz 18-bit/48kHz

7.1 24-bit/192kHz 24-bit/96kHz (5.1 only) 18-bit/48kHz

ASIO support

Playback 24-bit/192kHz 16-bit/48kHz Unsupported?

Record 24-bit/96kHz 16-bit/48kHz Unsupported?

Platforms Supported

Macintosh, PC PC only PC only

Audio Quality

SNR 107dB Stereo to 7.1 106dB on L/R/SL/SR

90dB on C/Sub/Rear C 90dB Stereo

THD+N .003% .004% .017%

Sources: M-Audio company data, specifications from

www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy2/

*street price available at a major

retailer, such as CompUSA

WITH ITS

107DB SNR,

7.1 SUR-

ROUND, AND

GAMING SUP-

PORT, THE

REVOLUTION

7.1 IS THE

ULTIMATE

CONSUMER

AUDIO CARD.

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