Diamond’s Monster Sound MX400 rocks your PC audio world by integrating groundbreaking technologies by ESS and Sensaura for scorching 3D positional audio, enhanced DirectSound3D®, TRUE quadraphonic playback, and Dolby Digital® surround sound.† Plus, create, play, download, store and manage the hottest digital audio formats from the Internet or rip tracks from your CD collection to build your own high quality MP3 files. So Up Your Audio with Monster Sound MX400!† Requires Dolby Digital receiver.

Key Features:
-Advanced positional audio
-Scorching 3D sound with true quad output
-Dolby Digital for PC home theater
-High quality MP3 playback and ripping.

MONSTER SOUND REDEFINES PC AUDIO!
Monster Sound MX400 delivers the ultimate PC audio experience!

Advanced Positional Audio Technology.
Monster Sound MX400 takes PC audio to the next level of realism with Sensaura’s groundbreaking MacroFX™ and EnvironmentFX™ (EAX 1.0 & 2.0 implementation) 3D positional technology. Specifically engineered to enhance the industry standard Microsoft DirectSound3D API, interactive games come alive as the acoustic environment envelops you.

Complete 360º horizontal and vertical positional audio…above and below you, to your left and right, in front and behind you, so now you can hear your enemies coming at you from any direction long before you actually see them.

Scorching 3D Sound with TRUE Quad Output
Enjoy the full benefits of 3D sound as independent audio streams are pumped into all four speakers simultaneously. Monster Sound MX400 incorporates Sensaura’s MultiDrive™ 3D positional audio, a technology that integrates front and rear sound hemispheres with such precision that you will start looking over your shoulder for reassurance that there isn’t anyone or anything behind you!

Dolby Digital® for PC Home Theater!
Bring DVD movies to life by connecting your PC Home Theater System to the Monster Sound MX400’s standard coaxial S/PDIF connector. Combined with an external Dolby Digital decoder and surround sound speaker system, the Monster Sound MX400 delivers full 6 speaker (5.1 channel) audio support. Plus, record to any S/PDIF (RCA coaxial) compatible device for true digital clarity.

High Quality Wave-Table Synthesis
Incredibly rich audio, featuring an advanced 320-voice DLS wave-table engine. Monster Sound MX400 supports up to 64 simultaneous hardware voices and 2MB and 4MB high quality sample set sizes.

Audio Processing Chipset:
PCI Controller:ESS Canyon3D(TM)
Audio Codec:Quad AC97 2.1 Codec
Accelerates up to 48 DS3D hardware streams simultaneously.
Powerful DSP capable of 32 bit audio signal processing.

-3D Algorithm:
Sensaura MultiDrive(TM)
Bus Type:
PCI 2.1
Signal to Noise Ratio:
>97dB (Mixer) >90dB(Playback)
Sample Rates:
Up to 48KHz playback/record
AC 97 Architecture:
AC'97 Rev 2.1

_MIDI Voices:
1,000-voices (Windows 2000)
64 –hardware voices (Windows 9x)

Reflections:
26 reflections (all types supported –EAX 1.0)

Quad Playback Support:
Games, Game Cutscenes,DVD’s,AVI’s,MIDI’s,Music CD's

Bracket Connectors:
Line 1 output – front speakers or headphones
Line 2 output – rear speakers
Microphone input
Line in
Coaxial S/PDIF out
MIDI/Analog/Digital joystick gameport.

Internal Connectors
MPC (CD, Modem)

Operating System Support:
Microsoft Windows 9x, Windows,
NT 4.0/2000 and DOS

Minimum Operating System:
Microsoft Windows 9x or Windows NT 4.0
Pentium 90MHz or higher
8MB RAM (16MB recommended)
16MB free hard disk space
One available PCI 2.1 compliant slot
Powered speakers or headphones.
Manufacturer Part # 205 - 0401

Package Contents:
Sound Card and Drivers!
Ships in Oem Packaging.