sound engine for either 7.1 surround or stereo audio. The pod is lit like a blue Christmas tree. The Megalodon doesn’t provide true surround sound. The Maelstrom engine, built off the same technology the French Air Force employs to generate surround sound...

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mode, each speaker is independent and the two front and surround stereo inputs are used. In stereoX2 mode, which is designed more for music, the surround speakers combine with the front ones and return exactly the same sound. This is called stereo panning....

you can set it up to use whichever suits your environment. There are four basic settings: Front 90 (stereo recording at a 90 degree angle from the front of the unit), Rear 120 (stereo from 120 degree angle from the back of the unit), two-channel surround (stereo...

Stereo audio recording and multichannel 24 bit/96 kHz maximum audio playback Available Not available Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 1 Available Available Creative MultiSpeaker Surround (CMSS) 2 Available Not available Surround stereo Available...

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From Stereo To Surround. creative. Touted by its maker as a revolution, with specifications that are admittedly mouth-watering, does the new X-Fi audio processor from Creative really deserve our attention - and yours? The answers to that question are starting...

button on the right, which makes it very easy to browse through the menus. On the left is the Menu button as well as an EAX button for setting environmental effects and the line outs for the speakers used (stereo or surround). The two buttons on the front right...