M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Audio Card Review

Dom · Jun 3, 2003, 12:30 AM

This spring M-Audio launched a new interesting audio solution - Revolution 7.1 sound card. M-Audio products are known as inexpensive quality semiprofessional solutions. The revolution means that this card is not professional but positioned mostly as a card for home theaters, playing music and games. It's for those who cares about sound.
The card was launched right after the successful advent of the Terratec 6fire. Such cards could be very popular a couple of years ago. But today Creative is always a step ahead of other players on this market. It's very difficult to compete today because the top Audigy2 possesses high-quality sound ( thanks to the expensive high-quality Crystal DACs) and unattainable gaming capabilities (EAX3.0, and EAX4.0 expected soon).

But if this is a real revolution will be clear in the end of the article. For testing this kind of cards we developed a special benchmark suite RightMark 3DSound which makes easier testing 3D sound quality and CPU load in different modes of operation of sound cards. The DSP installed doesn't support DirectSound in hardware, and all 3D functions are supported on the drivers level (based on Sensaura).

Read the full review at Digit-Life.com

Jun 3, 2003, 12:30 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Audio Card Review This spring M-Audio launched a new interesting audio solution - Revolution 7.1 sound card. M-Audio products are known as inexpensive quality semiprofessional solutions. The revolution means that this card is not professional but positioned mostly as a card for home theaters, playing music and games. It's for those who cares about sound. The card was launched right after the successful advent of the Terratec 6fire. Such cards could be very popular a couple of years ago. But today Creative is always a step ahead of other players on this market. It's very difficult to compete today because the top Audigy2 possesses high-quality sound ( thanks to the expensive high-quality Crystal DACs) and unattainable gaming capabilities (EAX3.0, and EAX4.0 expected soon). But if this is a real revolution will be clear in the end of the article. For testing this kind of cards we developed a special benchmark suite RightMark 3DSound which makes easier testing 3D sound quality and CPU load in different modes of operation of sound cards. The DSP installed doesn't support DirectSound in hardware, and all 3D functions are supported on the drivers level (based on Sensaura). Read the full review at Digit-Life.com