It also has a mini HDMI link that connects to the eternal Audio Control Module (ACM), a desktop box that provides an additional set of features and convenience ports. It houses the following ports: Front Left, Front Right, Rear, Center/Subwoofer, Optical-out, Optical-in, Op-amp Pair 1 (Single DIP), Op-amp Pair 2 (Dual DIP) The sound card itself is sleek and covered with a premium silver finish with LED support so it won’t look out of place if your PC is completely oozing with RGB lighting. In short, the AE-9 is able to power high-end audiophile headphones and home theater setups, while providing clean, speedy, and efficient audio processing without any interference from your motherboard and/or GPU. Scout Mode to enhance in-game sounds like footsteps (more on this later).Sound Blaster Engine for audio processing.5.1 surround sound support through DTS and Dolby, as well as a 7.1 virtual surround sound solution.Swappable op-amps if you want to go deep into customizing your sound.Upto 600 ohm support for high-powered headphones.Xamp Headphone Bi-amplifier that provides amplification to the left and right channels separately for clean audio production.CleanLine Technology to provide an interference-free communications for the mic input.DNR of 129 dB, with 32-bit 384 kHz playback (using Direct Mode).

Let’s go over its exhaustive list of specifications:

Keeping that aside, Creative has left no stone unturned to pack as many features and top-class hardware into the AE-9 as possible that it almost justifies its cost.

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