CREATIVE NOMAD Zen XTRA - Manual (Page 64)

Playing and Managing Your Music 3-25
Enhancing
Your Music
Using EAX
Your player allows you to enhance your listening experience with EAX
technologies also available with Creative's Sound Blaster Live! and Audigy 2
audio cards. EAX technologies (or "Settings") available in your player
include:
❍ Environment, a collection of presets that allows you to experience audio in the
virtual environment of your choice. Choose from the following Preset settings:
Auditorium, Bath Room, Cathedral, Concert Hall, Garage, Indoor Arena, Jazz
Club, Living Room, Opera House, Small Room and Theater.
❍ Time Scaling, which allows you to speed up or slow down audio without
changing pitch or distorting sound quality. Choose from the following Rate
settings: 0.50x, 0.75x, 1.00x, 1.25x and 1.50x.
❍ Advanced EQ, a collection of equalizer settings which can enhance audio of a
particular genre. Consists of Custom EQ, Acoustic, Classical, Disco, Jazz, New
Age, Pop, Rock, and Vocal. Scroll Select Custom EQ to set it from +12 dB
(maximum) to -12 dB (minimum). See "Customizing EQ Settings in EAX" on
page 3-27.
❍ Spatialization, which enhances your audio soundstage, useful if, for example,
you are listening to audio with headphones. Choose from the following Mode
settings: Full, Narrow and Wide.
❍ Smart Volume Management (SVM), which intelligently controls the dynamic
range of audio, providing a superior audio experience in difficult listening
environments such as in a plane or car.
General information
about EAX is
available at
www.NOMADworld.
com.