High Quality, Versatile Surround Sound for your PC:
    The Catalina sound card provides eight analog outputs for supporting 2, 4,
    5.1, and 7.1 multi-channel speaker configurations. The optical S/PDIF 
    output provides multi-channel surround sound when connected to a digital 
    audio home theater system. The optical S/PDIF input allows recording from
    pure digital sources, such as Minidiscs and CD players. Catalina is the 
    perfect audio upgrade for serious PC gamers, DVD movie fans and digital 
    music enthusiasts.

8 Channel PCI Sound Card with 24 bit / 96 kHz Digital Audio Interface:
    PC Games come to life! This sound card supports the latest in 3D
    positional audio for interactive PC gaming such as EAX®, HRTF-based 3D 
    positional audio, DirectSound 3D™ and A3D®. 32-bit PCI bus interface 
    compliant technology coupled with signal processing handles multiple3D
    streams.

Supports 5.1 or 7.1 Surround Sound Formats:
    Enjoy DVD playback with full 6 or 8 speaker surround sound. Optical S/PDIF
    output for playback of pure digital audio at resolutions of up to 24 Bits 
    at 96KHz sampling rate, allowing the sound card to pass through  Dolby® 
    Digital and DTS® multichannel DVD sound to external A/V receivers.

Record and Play Music with 24 bit/96 kHz Audio Quality:
    Optical S/PDIF input and output for transferring to and from minidisc 
    players and other digital audio equipment. Includes software to edit your
    digital audio files.

Crystal Clear Music Reproduction:
    High quality reproduction of MP3, WAV, CD, DVD and Internet Radio. Virtual
    surround sound technology converts stereo sources to multi-channel format
    for listening to MP3 digital music or movies with enhanced surround sound 
    on 4 or 6 speakers.
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