The card also includes a high-quality beam-forming microphone, which leverages CrystalVoice Echo Cancellation, CrystalVoice Focus and CrystalVoice Active Noise Reduction to enable gamers for the first time ever to use speakers and a desktop microphone while gaming without any sound other than the gamer's voice being transmitted through the microphone.

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It irked her that he had let this happen without making any sound to alert her to the problem.

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Those digital bits were photographed as they flew through the projector, and a processor turned the images into sound without the audience's noticing any delay.

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The sound quality of the A30s is excellent, without any of the hollow tones that occasionally accompany over-the-ear headphones.

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It may sound provocative enough to alienate prickly Americans, without giving Europeans any serious extra firepower.

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Already there are substantial state-to-state differences in what nurses are allowed to do without the supervision of doctors, differences that tend to reflect the entrenched political power of doctors rather than any sound public policy research.

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Indeed, the ensembles, which are key in this opera, often sound muddy and unfocused, and Maurizio Benini, the conductor, did a pedestrian job without supplying any bel canto lightness.

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The gorgeous speaker cabinets are easy on the eyes, with or without the speaker grille, and feature metal matrix waveguide-mounted tweeters that deliver big hi-fi sound from any location in the room.

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