Creative Labs PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook ( 70SB053000012 )
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Creative PCMCIA Card
  • Great addition to my notebook.
  • Incompatible
  • Most cost-effective solution for surround sound on your laptop!
  • Surprisingly Good!
Creative Labs PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook ( 70SB053000012 )

Manufacturer: Creative Labs
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Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:
  • Superior Home Theater sound quality for all your music, movies, and games
  • Rich, high-fidelity, 24-bit audio with 256 times the clarity of your basic notebook sound
  • Enjoy music, movies and games in virtual surround on headphones or full surround on 5.1 or 7.1 speakers
  • Make your digital music sound dramatically better with EAX ADVANCED HD Music Tools
  • Experience game sound effects so realistic that you'll feel like you are actually in the game

ASIN: B0007XRZ08

Product Description

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, the leading PC audio brand, is now available for your notebook. Dramatically improve your digital music experience. Enjoy movies in Dolby Digital 5.1 . Hear sound effects so real, you'll feel like you're actually in your games. Create studio quality recordings. And now you can enjoy this amazing audio experience at home or wherever you choose to go.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Creative PCMCIA Card.......2007-09-19

Great sound, fantastic features.I am using it with DVD playback on my Laptop. Eexcellent product.

5 out of 5 stars Great addition to my notebook........2007-08-07

This card clears the sound right up on my new logitech z-2300's. Easy enough to install, and the audio software is easy to operate.

5 out of 5 stars Incompatible.......2007-08-07

It is really a state-of-art SC, but it couldn't fit into the slit of my new DELL computer, so I had to turn it back. A friend of mine has the same one and is more than happy with it, but a piece of advice; before you buy it, make sure that it's compatible with the latest generation of your laptops!!!

5 out of 5 stars Most cost-effective solution for surround sound on your laptop!.......2007-07-14

"200 times better quality sound" sounds too good to be true, but there was a very noticeable difference as soon as I plugged it in and installed the software. You can hook up your surround sound speakers with the included cable, you can hook up your TV/Game System/Anything to the 'Line In' port with a component to 3.5mm adapter, which you can get for about 5 dollars, and you can hook headphones (I recommend Creative's HN-700's) up to the line out.

The included software allows you to do just about anything with your sound- Recording it, Ripping CD's, playing music, and you can test/adjust individual speakers, and you can even turn on advanced effects that make it sound like you're listening while in a large stadium or a garage (or about 50 other choices).

Creative's volume control is in the toolbar at the bottom, and if you want to switch from line-in to pc audio, just adjust the dials! No unplugging necessary! And of course, if you plug in headphones it will switch to them automatically.

BOTTOM LINE:
With a little searching you can find this for as low as 60 dollars, maybe even cheaper, and since you can hook-up anything that outputs sound to it, and play it in perfect quality surround sound, it's an all inclusive solution

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

5 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good!.......2007-07-05

I had the integrated sound go out on my Compaq V2000 notebook. I searched around for PCMCIA soundcards when I saw it would cost more than $400 to replace the motherboard of this 3 year old notebook.

I read some good reviews of this card, and Amazon had the best price, so I went for it. It works fantastic. The sound quality is on an entirely different level than the integrated sound chips. With a good pair of headphones you will hear things you didn't even know were there, especially lows and highs. I also tried it with my speaker system, and DVDs sound awesome as well.

Seeing how great the sound was, I was going to purchase a PCI version for my Desktop gaming PC, but intead grabbed a Rosewill PCMCIA to PCI adapter, which lets me use the Audigy 2 ZS on my Desktop as well. Again, it works and sounds great. Oblivion and FEAR sound simply amazing compared to the integrated audio.

Very happy with the product, and would strongly recommend it to anyone.
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Hardware is exceptional; drivers are abysmal.
  • Frustrating
  • Software was written by gibbon monkeys.
  • No input
  • Great-Sounding Stuff
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card

Manufacturer: Creative Labs
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:
  • The only PC solution to enable the Advanced Resolution era of 24-bit music fidelity with 192 kHz in stereo and 96 kHz in 5.1
  • The best Sound Blaster clarity ever, rivaling home-theater audio quality for music, games, and movies
  • Experience superior multi-channel audio from MP3s, CDs, 3-D games, and Dolby Digital EX movies with a rear center speaker
  • The most exciting features yet with library search, automatic playlist volume matching, and hiss removal for MP3s
  • Pure recording path captures the quality and subtle details of your audio creations

ASIN: B00006RVQK

Product Description

With the introduction of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2, Creative has once more raised the bar for PC audio, bringing to you the most definitive audio experience yet!Sound Blaster Audigy 2 delivers high-quality multi-channel recording and playback at up to 24-bit/96kHz and is the first PC product to offer playback of Advanced Resolution DVD-Audio at an astonishing 24-bit/192kHz with a stunning Signal-to-Noise ratio of 106dB, delivering spectacular audio quality that has now redefined PC audio standards. With EAX Advanced HD, 6.1 speaker support and Dolby Digital EX support, movies and games will be experienced with a breathtaking level of immersion and intensity, while SB1394 allows super-fast transfer of audio to external players.

Amazon.com Product Description

For the highest-quality audio experience, 16-bit is just not good enough. Step up to Sound Blaster Audigy 2 to hear the amazing difference that 24-bit Advanced HD makes. It delivers astonishing clarity and audio details that are inaudible on current 16-bit audio solutions, bringing your music, movies, and games to life.

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 offers Advanced Resolution DVD-audio playback up to an astonishing 24-bit/192 kHz in stereo, and delivers an ultraquiet 106 dB SNR that's far superior to ordinary CD and MP3 playback. With 6.1 speaker support, your games and Dolby Digital EX movies will sound more encompassing than ever before. The new Creative MediaSource music player will revolutionize your MP3 experience with its intuitive interface and rich feature set, while the Audigy 2 chip with EAX Advanced HD support delivers awesome power for gaming. Get Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for 24-bit/192 kHz audio fidelity--it delivers simply the best audio quality for music, movies, and games. Nothing else comes close.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Hardware is exceptional; drivers are abysmal........2006-12-30

I use a couple of Audigy 2ZS in my recording business. No other soundcard on the market, then or now, offers the flexibility and just great sound capturing capabilities of this card. Interestingly, all the later Creative products no longer support 192k/24 bit sampling, so this card is truly unique. The only other manufactured card supporting this brilliant sampling clarity costs US$250 more!

If you only get a hold of one of these cards to see how good audio CAN be on your computer, do it. It's jaw-droppingly good.

But I have to reinforce the driver problems described by others. I have dealt directly with the driver team at CL, and to say they are unhelpful is an understatement. Early drivers (e.g. those shipped on the CD) had some pretty bad flaws, but at least they allowed the card to work to its full potential (which is really astonishingly good!).

All the latest drivers (since late 2005) use the Creative "universal" driver model, which means they are designed to work correctly ONLY with the newer, low market level CL cards. All the new drivers have significant bugs and "showstopper" flaws, and completely prevent the card from being used properly (i.e. nowhere near it's actual technical specifications). Then there's a whole other discussion about CL supporting more than one card in any computer system. Old drivers worked beautifully with multiple cards, but new drivers just lock out inputs and confuse mixer settings and just don't work, full stop.

So if you want one of the clearest, most flexible, highest sample rate cards ever on the PC market up to this year, get one of these if you can (I've bought 3 spare cards in case any of my current ones die, as CL no longer support the product at all). Just don't expect the latest "mass market", "cloth-eared consumer" Creative labs drivers to work properly, and don't expect CL to help you with any technical problems. Ever.

To be honest, my next card will be anything BUT a Creative Labs product. But for me, the Audigy 2ZS is the BMW of the older audio card market. Have a drive, if you can. You just probably wouldn't want to own one.

3 out of 5 stars Frustrating.......2006-05-05

Alright...when I can actually get this darn thing to work right it is an EXCELLENT sound card..But over the past few years I've had this thing I have had to reinstall the drives numerous times....I mean...much more than I should have to...This program will only function right for me for about a few months before I have to reinstall it again. I have updated my drivers and I'm sure nothing is wrong with my hard drive, still get the same problem...suddenly something stops working right, this time it was the fact that I can only choose 4.1 speakers..not even headphones or anything else...I dont even have 4.1 speakers....I have 6.1...Last time I couldn't change the EAX settings from default, so everything sounded horrible, the time before that I couldn't even open the EAX console period, mostly it's just problems with their EAX software. Which if you dont use everything sounds much worse by the way. If you can look past that problem though....great sound card...creative just needs to learn how to program decent software, cause the drivers for this sound card are absolutely horrid.

1 out of 5 stars Software was written by gibbon monkeys........2005-11-30

I have had this card for 2 years now and it has worked fine for me as long as I didn't play with Creative's drivers or software.

All of a sudden, sound quit coming out of my rear speakers ONLY in certain Creative applications, and the speaker calibrator quit putting out any sound. So I uninstalled the drivers and tried to reinstall them.

Be aware that -

1. Creative will NEVER offer a driver pack on its webpage. You MUST, I repeat MUST start with your original CD to load some drivers, and then you can get Creative's patches from their webpage. Now that my CD is 2 years old, there appears to be a conflict with *its* drivers and creative's patches. Apparently not enough bananas were bought for the gibbons, and they wandered out to the jungle in search of nourishment before finishing a full driver package.

2. There is a good chance that once you go to reinstall your drivers, you will get a "Hardware not found" message (see Creative's tech support forum) and not be able to install the drivers. Want another banana, Creative programmer? OOO OOO OO AHH AHHH AHHH!

My card is now a steaming pile of $100 poo since their driver system is not working for me.

Wish I had my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz back.

1 out of 5 stars No input.......2004-09-02

I had this card installed in my Dell when I ordered it and I will say it does sound great BUT there is one proplem with it that I need and that is the input will not work. I called Creative Labs, Dell and got no where. Now maybe not many people need to use the input jack but it is a must for me. My old computer had a simple card but it did work. So if you want just great sound, this card is good but if you need to record albums, etc. then forget it, this card won't do it, or at least mine won't.

5 out of 5 stars Great-Sounding Stuff.......2004-02-05

To suggest that this soundcard is a dramatic improvement over on-board sound is a massive understatement. I recently purchased a new computer, one far more powerful and speedy than my old one, but I soon discovered that my media didn't sound nearly as good as I was used to hearing. I'd had a Sound Blaster Live card in my old unit, but I could not install that in the new computer: It was not compatible with Windows XP. Hence, I had to buy a new soundcard, not something super-fancy or compatible with speakers in 100 different rooms: Just something that kicks out good stereo sound for a good three-speaker setup, not to mention the ability to utilize more channels should I ever decide to go that route. The difference in the sound blew my mind: So much richer, deeper, more full in both lows and highs. This thing makes my computer sound wonderful, whether I'm playing it through my computer speakers or running it through my stereo. Helps with cd burning as well, as it allows for full-range copying of discs with 24-bit sound. Highly recommended!
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS External I/O Hub
Average customer rating: Not rated
    Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS External I/O Hub

    Manufacturer: Creative Labs
    ProductGroup: CE

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    Product Features:
    • Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS External I/O Hub General Features:
    • For use with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (not included) Fits 5.25-inch drive bay Infrared receiver
    • I/O ports: SPDIF In/Out Optical In/Out Headphone in jack Headphone volume knob
    • Left and Right RCA jacks 1/4-inch Line in 2/ Mic in 2 Mic volume knob MIDI In MIDI Out
    • 6-pin IEEE 1394 FireWire port

    ASIN: B000ST8TLK

    Product Description

    Use the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS External I/O Hub with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card (not included) and experience unsurpassed audio fidelity! TheCreative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS External I/O Hub features plenty of I/Oports for plugging in a musical instrument such as a guitar or keyboard and also has 1/4-inch jacks for headphones with a separate volume knob. Record your own music, order today!
    Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 PCI Sound Card SB0350 (5187-5655)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 PCI Sound Card SB0350 (5187-5655)

      Manufacturer: Creative Labs
      ProductGroup: CE

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      Product Features:
      • This THX certified Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS PCI sound card delivers 24-bit advanced HD audio, 108 dB SNR clarity across 8 channels, and delivers Advanced Resolution 24-bit DVD-Audio playback in 240bit/192 kHz stereo and 24-bit/96 kHz 5.1 surround! The Audigy2 ZS produces ultra-realistic sound in supported games and multi-channel playback in 7.1, 6.1 and 5.1 sound with over 400 existing 3D games.
      • General Features: Creative Audigy2 CA0102-ICT chipset. PCI 2.2 compliant interface. 24-bit Advanced HD audio. DTS Extended Surround support. Dolby Digital EX support. 7.1/6.1/5.1 support.
      • Superior Fidelity 24-bit Advanced HD Audio Features: 24-bit/192 kHz audio. Ideal for Windows Media 9 content. 24-bit/96 kHz audio in discrete 5.1 surround sound.
      • Connectors: Line level output (front/side/rear/center/subwoofer). Digital output for 5.1 support. Line-in. Microphone. Telephone answering device-in. Analog/digital CD audio-in.

      ASIN: B000RPMLC8

      Product Description

      Product Specifications: Manufacturer: Creative Labs Model: Audigy 2 ZS Part # SB0350 HP P/N: 5187-5655 Alt P/N: P8695-69001
      Creative PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • It always worked for me
      • Great specs, sounds great but crashes computer when ...
      • Great for some things, only so-so for others
      • Great for musicians who want to record their playing
      • Careful with your slot!
      Creative PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card

      Manufacturer: Creative Labs
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      Product Features:
      • Music - Dramatically improve your digital music listening experience
      • Movies - Enjoy amazing surround sound with headphones and 5.1 or 7.1 speakers
      • Games - Hear sound effects so real, you'll feel like you're actually in the game
      • Recordings - Create studio-quality, low-latency recordings with high-fidelity inputs

      ASIN: B00067KZJI

      Product Description

      The PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook opens a new era of possibilities for the notebook user. It delivers features previously only available to PC users but now available to notebook users (even those that are highly mobile). This is achieved by combining ultra-high quality audio with advanced, hardware-accelerated features all in a tiny PCMCIA format card! For instance it delivers THX certified 24-bit ADVANCED HD audio quality playback with incredible 104dB SNR, allowing the highest resolution audio playback with support for DVD-Audio at up to 24-bit/192kHz and Windows Media 9: 24-bit multi-channel audio format. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook also provides encompassing 7.1 surround sound for Dolby Digital EX as well as DTS-ES supported DVD movies; any DirectSound3D games and CMSS 3D virtualized 7.1 stereo music. Gamers will love the hardware accelerated EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD that not only brings games to life, but delivers maximum performance! Musicians will also enjoy true 24-bit recording and low latency ASIO support for the ultimate audio recording platform. Notebook audio just got very, very interesting!

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars It always worked for me.......2007-06-09

      I like the simplicity of this card and the great sound it has. I have been told that it does not work in all computers and you would have to test it. In mine it did but in a friend's compaq laptop with very similar carachteristics as mine it did not work. So watch out and make sure you can return it. For the ones that work, you are in for a great experience with many different audio options.

      2 out of 5 stars Great specs, sounds great but crashes computer when ..........2007-05-20

      Would give it a higher rating but crashes the Dell Latitude (Win XP) when you stop the device (as recommended) and remove the card! Bought it to use the laptop for Software Defined Radio, where the higher bandwidth would be very useful and a stereo sound in is required (most laptops have mono-in). If you don't try to stop or remove the card then everything works really well. Quite a bit of the software that comes with is pretty badly implemented - sucks up processor power. Hopefully the crash issue will be fixed.

      3 out of 5 stars Great for some things, only so-so for others.......2006-09-18

      The analog output was always a little noisy when my laptop was charging.

      Creative also fixes their digital outputs so that they only output at one word length and sample rate, (in the case of this card 24-bit, 96 Khz) and I could never for the life of me get them to sync properly with other digital equipment.

      5 out of 5 stars Great for musicians who want to record their playing.......2006-07-03

      I have bought this card for the purpose of recording my guitar into mp3 files. I have gotten way more than I asked for.

      My integrated soundcard was awful when it came to recording my gutiar. The microphone volume had to be adjusted perfectly to the sfx my guitar was using through my pedal. The recordings sounded cheap, staticy, poor, and homemade. When it came to recording with accompanying mp3's to accompany my guitar playing, it would be a big mess because the guitar or the mp3 would override one another.
      But the Audigy 2 ZS fixed all those problems. The software that comes with it can do an analysis of your playing to determine what the microphone volume shoudl be set at and will adjust so it doesn't distort. It can even automatically play an mp3 once you hit the record button so the accompanying mp3 and instrument are synchronized.Not to mention, the recording interface is extremely simple but yet amazing, and the recording quality is amazing.

      Some really cool features about this card is it can change the key of any mp3, but can only go up or down 4 semitones. It sounds amazing to hear a song you've heard forever in the key of E instead of the key of D. Also, it has a playback cleaner that takes the hissing and popping out of any song while its playing. It supports up to 7.1 speakers to create a THX surround sound experience.

      There's a whole bunch of bells and whistles, but I think the highlights of this card are the recording and mp3 playback capabilities. I give it a 5.

      4 out of 5 stars Careful with your slot!.......2006-03-23

      This is a PCMCIA card. New laptops (e.g. Dell Inspiron E1705) have ExpressCard slots. This is a new standard but it is not compatible with PCMCIA slot. Before going for this card make sure you have a PCMCIA slot in your notebook, or else the card won't fit. There is no ExpressCard soundcard yet.
      Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Internal Sound Card
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • Piece of JUNK
      • Great sound card
      • Beware
      • significantly improving the sound quality
      • Great sound but drivers and applications are a nightmare/buggy
      Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Internal Sound Card

      Manufacturer: Creative Labs
      ProductGroup: CE
      Binding: Electronics

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      Product Features:
      • Superior quality 24-bit/192kHz audio, ultra-realistic game effects, and studio quality music settings
      • Exclusive Creative THX Setup Console provides accurate audio calibration for a precise speaker listening environment
      • The only available PC platform for Advanced Resolution 24-bit/96kHz 5.1 surround and 24-bit/192kHz stereo DVD-Audio playback
      • Multi-Environment audio -- up to four simultaneous environments processed in real time, with Bass Boost, Multi-Band Graphic Equalizer, Audio Clean-Up and Karaoke
      • Complete Cinematic Surround Sound with DTS-ES and Dolby Digital EX Movies

      ASIN: B0000CG4DI

      Product Description

      The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with THX certification is the perfect choice for high-impact surround sound up to 7.1. Its 24-bit ADVANCED HD engine delivers stunning 7.1 surround audio in games and movies and supports Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES. There's also the exclusive THX Console for precise speaker calibration. Music lovers will appreciate its compatibility with DVD-Audio at 24-bit/192kHz in stereo and 24-bit/96kHz in 5.1, with 108dB SNR on all channels, Windows Media 9 compliance and CMSS 3D, which up-mixes stereo audio to 7.1. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS comes with Creative MediaSource 2 for digital audio playback, library creation and management. Musicians will also benefit from its true 24-bit/96kHz recording and low-latency ASIO 2.0 support.

      Customer Reviews:

      2 out of 5 stars Piece of JUNK.......2007-02-25

      the optical output only does 2.1 sound. If you want 5.1 to 7.1 sound then you have to use analog plugs on the back. Don't waste your money.

      5 out of 5 stars Great sound card.......2006-11-27

      This is one of the best sound cards you can get for this price.

      Using it will give you around a 10FPS boost when gaming as it has a very low cpu load (if you have a onboard sound card, the sound processing load is sent to the cpu but with this card, all processing is handled within the card)

      It is great for working with audio editors and studio apps like FL studio as it has great asio support and can handle hundreds of sound streams at 1 time with out skipping and with out putting a heavy load on the cpu.

      This card does wonders for music. using the eax console, you can make all music really sound 20-30 times better, the advance eq has a feature that will increase the detail of all audio making all music sound much better.


      PS some people on many different forums have been able to use creative x-fi drivers for this card and enable x-fi sound features. (i don't recommend doing this unless your very skilled with regedit as theres a high risk of something going wrong and you will need to spend hours in the regedit tool in windows)

      3 out of 5 stars Beware.......2006-07-29

      "Bait and switch... The amazon link showed a full retail box with included software. When the actual seller responded they indicated a "bulk" item. So what I got was not a retail box but a "baggie" with the card and a driver CD. I would consider another vendor..."

      5 out of 5 stars significantly improving the sound quality.......2006-02-16

      I bought refurbished Audigy 2 (older version of Audigy 2 zs) from creative's ebay store. It significantly improves the sound quality of my Logitech z 2300. I really love Audigy 2!!

      I found my refurbished Audigy 2 is very easy to install. I was really worrying about setting up BIOS as some one mentioned here before I bought that card. When I installed it, I just disabled the onboard audio through volume control. I found this is enough!

      2 out of 5 stars Great sound but drivers and applications are a nightmare/buggy.......2006-02-11

      I would not recommend unless you are a hardcore computer professional who knows how to workaround this fix.

      They got a great sound card, but the application was written by third grade s/w team.It is so buggy.

      When you install this applications, please choose Analog as default, as otherwise you won't hear sound from the speakers.

      Most of the time volume control will not show up on the taskbar. It took me a couple days to fix the s/w and drivers. Creative support is a joke.

      I had a Turtle beach Santa Cruz and I never had a single issue so far. It was only supporting 5.1 but otherwise setup was so easy. Definitely would have rated higher except for the s/w applications. Otherwise, the sound is awesome.
      Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS

        Manufacturer: Creative Labs
        ProductGroup: CE
        Binding: Electronics

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        ASIN: B0009M0OX2

        Product Description

        The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with THX certification is the perfect choice for high-impact surround sound up to 7.1. Its 24-bit ADVANCED HD engine delivers stunning 7.1 surround audio in games and movies and supports Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES. There's also the exclusive THX Console for precise speaker calibration. Music lovers will appreciate its compatibility with DVD-Audio at 24-bit/192kHz in stereo and 24-bit/96kHz in 5.1, with 108dB SNR on all channels, Windows Media 9 compliance and CMSS 3D, which up-mixes stereo audio to 7.1. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS comes with Creative MediaSource 2 for digital audio playback, library creation and management. Musicians will also benefit from its true 24-bit/96kHz recording and low-latency ASIO 2.0 support.
        Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS

          Manufacturer: Creative Labs
          ProductGroup: CE
          Binding: Electronics

          Sound CardsSound Cards | Computer Add-Ons | Computers & Add-Ons | Categories | Electronics | External | Internal
          ASIN: B0000ERWGA

          Product Description

          The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS with THX certification is the perfect choice for high-impact surround sound up to 7.1. Its 24-bit ADVANCED HD engine delivers stunning 7.1 surround audio in games and movies and supports Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES. There's also the exclusive THX Console for precise speaker calibration. Music lovers will appreciate its compatibility with DVD-Audio at 24-bit/192kHz in stereo and 24-bit/96kHz in 5.1, with 108dB SNR on all channels, Windows Media 9 compliance and CMSS 3D, which up-mixes stereo audio to 7.1. The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS comes with Creative MediaSource 2 for digital audio playback, library creation and management. Musicians will also benefit from its true 24-bit/96kHz recording and low-latency ASIO 2.0 support.
          Creative Labs - Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card
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            Creative Labs - Sound Blaster Audigy SE Sound Card

            Manufacturer: Creative Labs
            ProductGroup: CE

            Sound CardsSound Cards | Computer Add-Ons | Computers & Add-Ons | Categories | Electronics | External | Internal
            Product Features:
            • 7.1 surround output
            • 24-bit/96kHz audio resolution
            • 100dB signal to noise ratio
            • EAX ADVANCED HD 3.0 support for gaming
            • CMSS up-mixes stereo content to 7.1 surround

            ASIN: B000H5FNY6

            Product Description

            Enjoy an audio experience that's just not possible with basic motherboard audio. Sound Blaster Audigy SE features high-quality audio that dramatically improves MP3 music listening, support for EAX Advanced HD 3.0 effects that make PC games come alive and multichannel 5.1 or 7.1 sound for immersive surround sound in music, movies and games. When it comes to PC Audio nothing compares to Sound Blaster!
            Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS
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              Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro - Sound card - 24-bit - 192 kHz - 7.1 - PCI - Creative Audigy 2 ZS

              Manufacturer: Creative Labs
              ProductGroup: CE
              Binding: Electronics

              Sound CardsSound Cards | Computer Add-Ons | Computers & Add-Ons | Categories | Electronics | External | Internal
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              Product Features:
              • 106dB SNR - sound quality rivaling Home-theater quality
              • EAX ADVANCED HD for enhanced sound in supported games
              • Installs into a free PCI slot inside your computer

              ASIN: B0009M0OXC

              Product Description

              Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro delivers the most comprehensive audio capabilities and connectivity for the PC! Featuring 5 stereo Inputs / 6 stereo Outputs, external I/O hub, and superior fidelity 24-bit ADVANCED HD audio, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro supports simultaneous recording of six channels of 24-bit/96kHz audio with low latency ASIO 2.0 support. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro is also the only PC platform to deliver Advanced Resolution 24-bit DVD-Audio playback in pristine 108dB SNR clarity across all channels. With the unique Creative THX Setup Console, you'll be able to create cinematic quality speaker surround with DTS-ES, Dolby Digital EX movies and 3D games!

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