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    User’s Guide Ultimate Edge ™ 5.1 High Definition 24-bit Sound Card plus PSA2 HD ™ Philips Sound Solutions PHILIPS[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e ii SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT THIS SOFTWARE END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (THI S “AGREEMENT”) IS A LEGAL AND BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU (EITHER AN INDIVIDUAL OR ENTI TY) AND PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION, with OFFICES AT 1251 Av enue of the Americas, Ne[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e iii OF THE SOFTWARE TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED RESULT S, AND FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, USE OF, AND RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE SOFTWARE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, PHILIPS AND ITS SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANT IES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCL[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e iv Philips Ultimate Edge™ 5.1 Channel Soundcard © Copyright 2004 PSC724™ and Philips Ultimate Edge™ are tra demarks of Philips Sound Solutions. Philips Sound Agent 2 HD™, Sound Agent 2 HD™, and PSA2 HD™ are tradem arks of Philips Sound Solutions. QSound™, QEM™, QSo[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e v Table Of Contents 1. Introduction .......................................................................................... 1 1.1. KEY FEATURES ........................................................................................................... 2 1.2. Minimum System Requi[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e vi 4. Uninstalling PSA2 HD ........................................................................ 27 5. Technical Support And Warranty ..................................................... 28 5.1. Internet Address: .................................................................[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 1 1. Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Ultimate Edge Soundcard! The Ultimate Edge has been designed to transform your computer into a next generation Media PC. We are confident that yo u will experience the ultimate in PC audio performance and fe atures. This doc[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 2 1.1. KEY FEATURES Professional grade audio components transform your computer into an advanced digital audio processor! • Front output external speaker jack (Left/Right) – 24-bit / 96KHz • Surround output external speaker jack (Left/Right) – 24-bit / 96KHz • Center / LF[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 3 1.2. Minimum System Requirements Genuine Intel Pentium III 450 MHz or faster 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) One CD-ROM Drive 800 x 600 screen resolution (1024 x 768 recommended) 20 MB of available hard drive space PCI 2.2 compliant slot Windows  2000 or Windows  XP Operatin[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 4 2. Installation of The New Sound Card Installing your Philips Ultimate Edge soundcard is easy. Plea se take a moment to read all the steps before proceeding with the installation. If you need more details, read through this user’s guide. Note: Computers come in different shapes[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 5 2.2. Detailed Installation Guide Please have the PC and the old soundcard documents at hand. Refer to them for the removal or disabling the existing soundcard on your PC. 2.2.1. Before Installing the New Soundcard Before starting the installation of the new soundcard you will nee[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 6 If the sound system is integrated on the motherboard, usuall y, the connectors are similar to the add-on card, but they are not on a bracket. They might be stacked up in one or two rows. Figure 2 shows examples of on-board audio connectors. Figure 2 If your PC does not have any t[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 7 Follow these steps to remove the old card. See Figure 3 . • Remove the PC cover. Because every PC is different it is very important that you refer to the users manual that came with your PC on how to remove the cover. • Unscrew the old soundcard and save the screw for the Ult[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 8[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 9 2.2.5. Installing the New Soundcard Follow these steps to install the Ultimate Edge soundcard. See Figure 4 . • Remove the Ultimate Edge soundcard from the anti-static bag. • Align the soundcard with the selected PCI bus slot and firm ly push it into the slot. Be sure the sou[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 10 Figure 5 2.2.6. Speaker Connection You need to have a set of self-powered speakers. Self-powered means that the spea kers have their own power supply that plugs into an AC outlet or use batteries. It is strongly reco mmended that you refer to the documentation that came with you[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 11 Figure 6 After connecting the speakers, run the speaker test utility to ensure proper connection. Click on the setup tab in the Main control panel, and then click on the Test butto n. For more information refer to the Setup tab section of this document. 2.3. Software Installatio[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 12 3. The Philips Sound Agent 2 HD The Philips Sound Agent 2 is a Graphical User Interface that provides all the unique and powerful features of the Ultimate Edge Soundcard. The PSA2 HD and the soundcard have the intelligence to detect the source and the type of your audio stream. [...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 13 When PSA2 HD is launched for the first time, it a ppears in the fully expanded form as shown in Figure 8 . The panel contains three distinct sect ions; Compact Control Panel, Main Control Panel, and Visual Control Panel. Use the Resize button to reduce the expanded form to a com[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 14 3.2. Compact Control Panel The Compact Control Panel contains the following controls: Mute Button Resize Button Close Button Figure 9 Master Volume Master Volume controls the overall output level of the sound system. This volume control is synchronized with the volume control on[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 15 QSizzle Toggles the QSizzle effect. When on, enhances the mid/high frequency ra nge of a digitally compressed audio stream. The button label illuminates when QSizzle is enabled. QRumble Toggles the QRumble effect. When on, it enhances the low frequency ra nge of the audio stream[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 16 3.3. Main Control Panel The Main Control Panel is in the center of the expanded mode, and it provides a ccess to advanced settings for most PSA2 HD controls, which are grouped in five separate tabs. See Figure 10 . If only the Compact control panel is visible, you must expand it[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 17 QRumble responds in real time to the varying nature of the input signal, a utomatically adjusting itself accordingly. This is very different from the Equalizer, which is a static frequency p rocessor. The Equalizer does not monitor the input signal or perform self-adjustment. Th[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 18 3.3.2. Equalizer Tab The Equalizer (EQ) controls the frequency respon se of the system by increasing or decreasing the frequency response of ten independent frequency bands. This Equalizer works very much the same as the equalizers in high quality sound systems. Each slider cont[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 19 3.3.3. Setup Tab Located under the setup tab is a speaker configuration panel and other critical audio controls. This tab contains the controls to select and conf igure the speaker mode based on the type and number of speakers you have. The Ultimate Edge soundcard supports a wid[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 20 Preamp Slider The Preamp Level control allows you to boost the input audio signal bef ore it is processed by the PSA2 HD. It has a similar effect as the master volume, but should not be used instead of it. The Preamp can be particularly useful to boost low level DVD movie soundt[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 21 3.3.4. Mixer Tab Mixer controls allow you to select and control playback and r ecording input sources. 3.3.4.1. Playback source controls You can individually mute or un-mute as many playback sources as you wish. Volume sliders set the playback level for each source. Balance slid[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 22 Figure 15 Before you start recording, you need to configure the recording source. Select a sour ce by clicking the appropriate “Select” button. Each so urce has its own level and balance controls. To set each slider in its default position, right click on the sliders. See Fi[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 23 HI-SR(96KHz) Selecting the HI-SR (High Sample Rate) button will enable 96KHz sample rate for both input and output from the Ultimate Edge. When you enable HI-SR on the Ultimate Edge: - Input streams are sampled at 96kHz and processed by PSA2 HD at that rate. PSA2 HD output may t[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 24 3.3.5. Presets Tab The Preset functions enable you to make snapshots of the state of all Philips Sound Agent 2 controls, so that you can conveniently reload the same settings at any time. Figure 17 The Preset system enables you to save the stat e of PSA2 HD controls once you hav[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 25 Deletes the selected preset permanently from t he list. When you select on e your presets and click on this button, a confirmation dialog box will appear and when you confir m by clicking the OK button, the preset will be removed from the list. This button will not delete any of[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 26 3.4. Visualization Control Panel The Visualization Control Panel provides a graphical representation of the environments and effects that are created by Sound Agent 2. It also contains two drop-down menus and the Reve rb Intensity Slider. The drop-down menu on the right contains[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 27 4. Uninstalling PSA2 HD If for any reason it becomes necessary to unins tall the PSA2 HD drivers, you can choose one of two available methods. You may go to the system control panel and laun ch the “Add/Remove Programs” utility as shown in Figure 20 . From the list of progra[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 28 5. Technical Support And Warranty Before calling the technical support number please make sure you have t he following information available: • Model number and date of purchase. • Computer type, processor speed, and available memory. • Computer operating system (IE; Windo[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 29 6. Appendix A Useful Tips For Speaker setup Following is some suggestions to help you set up your speakers for best results. 6.1. Ideal Listening S cenario (Speakers) The ideal way to experience proper imaging, whether stereo, surround, or 3D, is to begin by arranging each pair [...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 30 7. Appendix B Uninstalling the Old Drivers and the Soundcard Regardless of which one of the supported oper ating system s you have, the following general steps are used to remove the old drivers. It is recommended that you remove the drivers before you take the old soundcard out[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 31 8. Appendix C Disabling the Integrated Sound To disable the on-board audio you need to enter the system BIOS setup. Most computers only allow you to enter the setup right after power up and just befor e the operating system starts loading. A message may appear briefly to inform [...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 32 9. Appendix D Troubleshooting This appendix covers some of the basic mistakes and pitfalls you might encounter. 9 No Sound is coming out 1. Check the speakers. a. Ensure the speakers are plugged into the back of the sound card. b. Ensure the speaker power supply plugged into the[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 33 Figure 21 9 CD Player Control in the mixer playback tab does not have any effect on the output when Playing Audio CD in the CD Drive Because the CD player sends the audio streams via the digit al data lines, Windows treats this source like other digital audio sources such as MP3[...]

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    Philips Sound Solutions The Ultimate Edge™ Soundcard Users Guid e 34 9 Listen to Analog Inputs is causing feedback when recording from Microphone The microphone is too close to the speaker or the Mic In recording level is too high. Please remove the microphone away from the speaker or lower the level of Mic In slider from the Mixer Tab->Record[...]