HT Omega is an audio hardware manufacturing company based in
Ontario
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,
California
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. It designs and builds multimedia hardware and peripherals for personal computer and professional markets. HT Omega has a dedicated research & development division, creating equipment based on
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3, is the name for what has now become a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. Formerly named Dolby Stereo Digital until 1995, the audio compression is lossy ...
and
DTS technologies, marketed towards
gamers
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and
home entertainment enthusiasts.
Product line
HT Omega was one of the first companies to offer true
24-bit (
192 kHz) performance in its sound cards, by implementing the
C-Media
C-Media Electronics, Inc. () is a Taiwan computer hardware company that manufactures processors for PC audio and USB storage, and wireless audio devices.
Products
ISA audio
* CMI8328
* CMI8330
PCI audio
* CMI8338
* CMI8738-SX
* CMI87 ...
Oxygen 8788
digital signal processor
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing. DSPs are fabricated on MOS integrated circuit chips. They are widely used in audio si ...
. Some cards have swappable
op-amp
An operational amplifier (often op amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and, usually, a single-ended output. In this configuration, an op amp produces an output potential (relative to c ...
s.
HT Omega's line of PC audio cards includes the following:
* STRIKER 7.1 (
Conventional PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format th ...
)
* CLARO, CLARO plus + (PCI)
* eCLARO (
PCI Express
PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-e, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X and AGP bus standards. It is the common ...
)
* CLARO halo, halo XT (PCI)
* Fenix (PCI Express)
References
External links
www.htomega.com HT Omega company website. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in California
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