As you know any progress can be achieved in two ways: revolutionary or evolutionary. The evolutionary approach takes all the best and positive knowledge accumulated over the past years. Of course, any revolution lures us with promises of fast progress, but there is high price to pay for it – any mistake may become a fatality. Today we will talk about revolution as viewed by M-Audio. This company ended the last year with a launch of a new audio card named no other but Revolution 7.1. What’s so interesting about it, and what’s the price of a mistake here – that’s what we are going to discuss today.
As its name suggests, Revolution 7.1 is an eight-channel audio card. It boasts professional sound quality and is targeted at the mass market. The product is first of all intended for the user who wants to build a home DVD-theater from his PC. Added all other features – music playback, surround effects in computer games, recording and mixing of your own compositions – Revolution 7.1 seems to be one more Creative Audigy2 killer, or, at least, a worthy competitor. The question is what is so particular about this card, which could win the hearts of sophisticated users, or even proselytize Creative followers, so that they start adhering to a new faith, the faith in revolution?
Read the review at XBitLabs.com
Jul 17, 2003, 12:45 AM
