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The latest drivers, both in 32 and 64bit, can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.bluegears.com/download_driver_xmystique.html">Bluegear's site</a>. Installing the drivers will place an icon in the system tray. Double clicking it brings up the C-Media audio configuration program which features many options organized under 5 tabs.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/mainsetting1.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/mainsetting1th.jpg" width="350" height="306" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The first tab is labeled Main Settings. It is where you can choose between analog outputs of various speaker setups (from headphone to 8 channels) and digital output. Under digital output, in addition to the Dolby Digital Live 5.1 encoding, the X-Mystique 7.1 Gold can alternatively output PCM 2ch sound at various resolutions. Also under the Main Settings tab is a DSP (digital sound processing) option called Virtual Speaker Shifter, which as the name implies, allows you to virtually "relocate" speakers.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/mainsetting2.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/mainsetting2th.jpg" width="350" height="306" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The next tab is labeled Mixer and features volume adjustments similar to the Volume Control of Windows. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/Mixer.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/Mixerth.jpg" width="350" height="306" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The next tab is labeled Effect. Here you find a 10 band equalizer along with 12 preset equalizer settings. In addition the equalizer settings, there are also Environment sound effect settings (27 total).</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/Effect.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/Effectth.jpg" width="350" height="306" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>The last tab that features options is labeled Karaoke/Magic Voice. Under this tab are microphone and music playback options tailored to help turn your computer into an effective karaoke machine.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/Karaoke.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/Karaoketh.jpg" width="350" height="306" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Along with the driver applications, a few other programs are also included, such as a few 3D positional sound testing programs and a primitive media player. One of the included programs, called Play3D Demo, is particularly efficient at testing surround sound performance.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/play3demo.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bluegears/play3demoth.jpg" width="350" height="261" border="0" alt="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card" title="BlueGears HDA Digital X-Mystique 7.1 Gold Sound Card"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td><a href="atruereview/bluegears/sound_card.php"></a> <a href="bluegears/sound_card.php">Previous (Introduction & Features)</a></td> <td><div align="right"><a href="atruereview/bluegears/sound_card3.php"></a> <a href="bluegears/sound_card3.php">Next (Performance)</a></div></td> </tr> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="footer" class="clr"> <div class="rk-1"> <div class="rk-2"> <div id="the-footer"> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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