Amazon.co.uk Review
When it comes to affordable high quality sound on your PC, VideoLogic's SonicFury sound card is hard to beat, providing CD-quality sound over six channels, with support for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Whether you're interested in creating music, getting the best Dolby Digital audio from DVD films or want the latest in surround-sound gaming technology, the SonicFury has it all.
Based on the Crystal 4630 Sound Fusion digital sound processor, the card supports the latest in positional surround sound, including Microsoft's DirectSound3D, Aureal A3D and Creative's EAX 1 and 2. Whether you have a two, four or even a five speaker set up, the SonicFury can provide you with the best possible sound output. With three built in analogue stereo outputs, as well as a digital out, stereo line-in and microphone, you'll have no trouble hooking up your audio equipment.
Supporting sound playback up to 48 KHz in 20 bits over six channels, the quality is excellent. Recording is equally impressive at up to 18 bits. For musicians 64 hardware MIDI voices are possible with an unlimited number of possible software voices. The software bundle is geared towards musicians with a comprehensive list of MP3 players, software synthesisers and samplers--including MusicMatch Jukebox, JetAudio, Yamaha Softsynth XG and XG Studio.
Installation is simple and problem-free, though the provided 12-page manual is less than impressive. Overall, the SonicFury is a superb sound card for its very reasonable price, though pure gamers may want to opt for a card that comes bundled with a set of games. --Nick Baxter
Manufacturer's Description
Whether you want to create music, listen to MP3s, play games, communicate over the Internet or enjoy home theatre surround sound, SonicFury is the revolutionary high-performance six-channel DSP sound card that brings a new level of processing power and audio fidelity to your PC.
SonicFury's advanced design provides full hardware DSP acceleration for MP3 playback, 96 stream DirectSound acceleration and 64 hardware MIDI voices (up to 1024 in software) for ultimate audio performance whatever your application. Engineered for the future, SonicFury's powerful DSP accelerator not only allows upgrades via software but will reconfigure its processing power depending on the task your PC is performing, optimizing system performance by offloading MP3 playback and other audio tasks from your PC's main processor.
SonicFury can drive two, four or six (5.1) speakers for a sensational Dolby Digital home theatre experience and comes with Sensaura 3D positional sound, for amazing in-game 3D sound effects from 2 or 4 speakers or headphones. Its powerful DLS-compliant MIDI engine has a professional quality 8MB sample set, up to 1024 voices and a wide range of hardware DSP effects.
SonicFury enhances every aspect of audio on your PC and is supplied with a massive software selection that includes applications for making music, creating, playing and mixing MP3s, 3D audio game demos and much, much more.