{"video_id":"kJDl2Bcse18","title":"AuzenTech X-FI Hometheater HD Sound Card Unboxing Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":308,"segments":[{"start_s":0.52,"end_s":10.24,"text":"today on my video blog we're going to unbox the azente xfi home theater HD so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.68,"end_s":11.759,"text":"this is the very first sound card or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.24,"end_s":17.76,"text":"well I think there's one other one but this is the first one to do it correctly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.88,"end_s":19.64,"text":"for support for Dolby true HD and DTS HD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":23.76,"text":"Master audio so what that means is when you're playing back a Blu-ray movie","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.4,"end_s":29.279,"text":"there's absolutely no down sampling you are getting the audio exactly as 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so here's where you're going to find your front plugins so if you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":268.759,"end_s":274.4,"text":"were to plug in any um I believe creative has like a front","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":272.24,"end_s":278.919,"text":"Bay that you can plug into that uh right here we've got a spit if in so if you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":276.68,"end_s":282.56,"text":"have to plug one of those in that'll go there at the top there's a few little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":280.8,"end_s":285.84,"text":"fingers and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure what those are for and then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":284.56,"end_s":291.84,"text":"right here this is one of the features that azex cards are very famous for so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":288.52,"end_s":293.759,"text":"this is a swappable stop U socket for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":291.84,"end_s":298.6,"text":"your opamp so what that means is that you can actually take this out if you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":295.88,"end_s":302.199,"text":"prefer a different one to put in there so a lot of guys are doing out with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.0,"end_s":308.56,"text":"these cards anyway that's pretty much it for the xfi home theater HD thank you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":304.4,"end_s":308.56,"text":"for checking out my video blog","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"today on my video blog we're going to unbox the azente xfi home theater HD so this is the very first sound card or well I think there's one other one but this is the first one to do it correctly for support for Dolby true HD and DTS HD Master audio so what that means is when you're playing back a Blu-ray movie there's absolutely no down sampling you are getting the audio exactly as it is recorded most sound cards are not able to do that so let's get this unboxing going on another thing it's got listed on the front is that it's support it's got support for HDMI 1.3 HD audio pass through so here we go this is an xfi card so that means that it's using the creative xfi chip and let's get it started here so oh on the side this is even labeled for us check that out so we got the bundle pack and then we have the xf5 home theater HD so why don't we do the bundle pack first we just yeah we'll do that okay so let's find out just exactly what comes with this sound card it's a very expensive sound card so it better come with some good quality audio and some good accessories here so first of all we have our breakout cable so this is where you're going to get all of your standard analog connections so you got your side front rear sub line in and mic ports and those all come out of kind of a serial looking Jack on the sound card okay so then we have an optical cable this is kind of a sweet looking optical audio cable because yeah it's clear that's that's pretty neat actually okay next we have a DVI to HDMI adapter okay so it comes right with one of those that's pretty awesome and then we have an HDMI cable this looks like it's about a 6t cable 6t HDMI cable and then we have oh this is interesting okay so sorry that was a toss link fiber optic digital cable and and then this is the adapter for it so there we go now now we've clarified that okay so what else do we find in here here's your installation CD so that's got your drivers on it you're probably going to want to download the latest drivers for something like this anyway then you've got a little pamphlet including a 10% discount at uh cyberlink.com so you can grab power dvd9 which you will need for blu-ray playback it's not done natively in Windows Vista or Windows 7 and then we will find a quick installation guide so wow that doesn't seem all that quick but it's in multiple languages so let's focus down on what we're actually going to be using here which is English for me anyway so that just shows you where to plug in all of the stuff to the back of the card that's very interesting let's get the card out now all right so here we are pulling out careful the sound you are about to hear is extremely real that is an awesome warning and I love it okay here is the sound card itself the home theater HD quality assurance seal let's take that right off quality is no longer assured no I'm just kidding that's not how it works okay there is the back of the card so the first thing you notice about this is that it is a PCI Express 1X card now you can use a PCI Express 1X card in any PCI Express slot whether it's 1X 4X 8X 16x so that's really good flexibility there here is the analog IO so that's where we plug in that breakout cable we saw before this is the headphone out or it's right there so does this card actually have an amplified headphone jack is the question that I should be asking myself uh yes it does this has an onboard headphone amplifier so that's terrific if you're using headphones that have um a high impedance okay so digital out is right here then we've got our HDMI out and our HDMI in so what that means is from your video card you're going to go DVI out into the HDMI in here and then it's going to add the audio so that's where you're getting the lossless audio algorithms added basically it's it's um it's an encryption device basically so you can't do it with any previous sound card because that's where it's all done is right on the sound card then HDMI out will carry the video from the DVI the audio that's been added by the processor on the sound card out to your receiver so let's have a look at the front of the card here so here's where you're going to find your front plugins so if you were to plug in any um I believe creative has like a front Bay that you can plug into that uh right here we've got a spit if in so if you have to plug one of those in that'll go there at the top there's a few little fingers and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure what those are for and then right here this is one of the features that azex cards are very famous for so this is a swappable stop U socket for your opamp so what that means is that you can actually take this out if you prefer a different one to put in there so a lot of guys are doing out with these cards anyway that's pretty much it for the xfi home theater HD thank you for checking out my video blog"}