The Razer Barracuda™ AC-1 Gaming Audio Card, powered by Razer Fidelity™ delivers optimized audio signals directly from the computer game to the gamer, creating the most realistic gaming environment. The Razer Barracuda AC-1 features proprietary Razer audio technologies including the patent pending Razer Enhanced Sonic Perception™ (ESP) architecture and Razer’s 3D (720°) Positional Gaming Audio Engine™ to allow gamers to pinpoint exact location of enemies more accurately than before.

Special Features

• Razer Enhanced Sonic Perception™ (ESP) enhances positional audio in gaming to allow competitive gamers to take advantage of the expanded dynamic soundstage in-game
• Dolby® Pro-Logic IIx surround processor splits stereo audio into 7.1 channel surround sound
• Dolby® Headphone technology conveys 5.1 surround or 3D gaming sounds over stereo headphones
• Independent Dolby® Digital Live (AC-3) 5.1 real-time encoding bit-stream to facilitate connection with CE AV receiver
• Dolby® Virtual Speaker solution brings amazing virtual surround sound fields via general two speakers
• DTS® Interactive Real-time 5.1 encoder that takes any 2 or more channels and encodes it into DTS bit stream
• DTS® NeoPC An upmixing matrix that turns any 2 channel audio into 7.1 surround sound
• Supports 7.1 CH digital audio playback for WinXP 64, WinXP ,Win2000 (Microsoft® DirectX V.9.0 above is required) and most industrial standards of PC 3D sound for gaming, including EAX™ 1.0&2.0, A3D™ 1.0, and DirectSound™
• PCI 2.2 interface (Burst Modes and Bus Mastering)
• 4 synchronous I2S input/output pairs
• Integrated 192k/24-bit S/PDIF receiver/transmitter Multi-channel AC-link (supports up to 2 AC97 codecs)
• S/PDIF IN supports digital loop back path for transforming between optical and RCA connection
• Serial bus to communicate with micro control unit (MCU)lMPU-401 MIDI UART port support
• All I2S I/O pairs support 32-bit high-definition PCM data transfer and adjustable sample rate up to 192KHz