AOpen America Launches New Line of PC Soundcards; Music, Not Just Sound, Makes These Cards a Winner for Gamers and Home Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001 AOpen America, Inc. today announced the successful introduction of two new soundcards, the AW744 using the new Yamaha YMF YMF Young Musicians Foundation YMF Younger Member Forum (American Society of Civil Engineers) YMF Yamaha Motor Finance YMF Young Member Forum (American Society of Civil Engineers) 744 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). audio accelerator chipset and the AW320 incorporating Crystal's CS4614 Audio Processor. These cards now offer very high performance audio for the Gamer and Home User markets where audiophile An individual who is very interested and enthusiastic about the sound quality of a stereo or home theater system. Quality audio components are designed to reproduce the audio without adding any distortion or coloration. level performance is sought after. The AW744 and the AW320 directly support Microsoft DirectSound and DirectMusic Hardware acceleration and internal modem connector. "Sound may be the wrong descriptor here," says Paul Su, President of AOpen America, Inc. "Music would better describe the quality of audio that is now possible on any PC using our new AW744 and AW320 series of sound machines." The AW744 series runs on any of the Windows OS environments including Windows 2000. The AW744 also is compatible with OPL OPL Open Publication License OPL Olympus Product Line (Sun) OPL outer plexiform layer OPL Organiser Programming Language (PSION) OPL On-Premise Laundry OPL Optical Path Length OPL Open Public License 3, MP3, Sound Blaster Pro and Windows Sound systems. With 64 instrument hardware wavetables, the richness of sound is unparalleled. Standard software drivers allow for up to 73 concurrent audio streams using the Bus Master DMA (1) (Digital Media Adapter) See digital media hub. (2) (Document Management Alliance) A specification that provides a common interface for accessing and searching document databases. engine. The AW744 supports up to 4 speaker channels (on Win9.x and NT4.0). A variety of audio connections make the AW744 a versatile unit for many applications. S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital InterFace) A serial interface for transferring digital audio from CD and DVD players to amplifiers and TVs. S/PDIF is typically used to transmit PCM and Dolby Digital 5.1, but is not tied to any sampling rate or audio standard. Input, stereo inputs for Line-in, CD-audio, Auxiliary-in, MPEG-in and a mono microphone-in. The AW744's UAR/T mode using the MPU-401 interface allows wavetable synthesizers and MIDI devices to easily integrate. An integrated dual Game port interface is targeted specifically at gamers who will find this soundcard a key component of their systems. The Music Center software bundle is included with the AW744. This bundle provides full functionality for WAV, MIDI, audio CD and Mixer capability plus a user-friendly player interface. The AW320 includes a 10-band Audio Equalizer, Fat Labs approved 64 Voice Hardware wavetable synthesizer, 128 Voice Software wavetable synthesizer and the Sensura positional 3D supporting games with A3D (hardware) A3D - (Aureal 3-Dimensional?) A technology developed by Aureal that delivers sound with a three-dimensional effect through two speakers. Many modern sound cards and PC games now support this feature. interface. The Crystal CS4614 Audio Processor now has the CrystalClear(TM) Stream Processor DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive at its core. The AW320 supports all popular Windows OS environments including Windows 2000 and Windows Me. "The PC has become a fundamental tool for Gamers and Home Users who want to add music to their total computing experience," comments Su. "With the AW744, it really transforms the computer into a true entertainment device. It is amazing, you really need to hear it to appreciate what is now possible." Both the AW744 and the AW320 now challenge the current soundcard suppliers with a solid combination of quality, performance, and price. Availability and Pricing The AW744 and the AW320 are now available through AOpen's reseller partners. Pricing is $70.00 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. for the AW744 and $40.00 for the AW320. Both products offer a 15 month warranty from time of manufacture. About AOpen America Headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , AOpen America is the world's largest total component solutions manufacturer and a member of an $8.5 billion technology group. Leveraging more than 23 years of technology manufacturing experience and more than 1,000 Group patents, AOpen designs, develops and markets advanced PC motherboards, optical drives, PC housings, peripherals, multimedia and networking solutions for resellers, system integrators and those who value reliability and performance. Editor's Note: More information about AOpen, AOpen Products, services, and business partners is available on the World Wide Web at: www.AOpenUSA.com. AOpen is a registered trademark of AOpen Inc. All other products, brand names or companies are trademarks or registered marks of their respective companies. |
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