Pros: Great sound and a lot of software comes with it. Cons: Need a 5.1 decoder card for true 5.1 sounds and the price.
This is the ultimate in great sound for the home PC computer. Not only do you get a great sound, you also get a lot of software to keep you busy for a long time.
This card can be set up for two speakers, four speakers and with the optional...
Pros: The sound is phenomenal, the remote is a great toy, good response from tech support Cons: Can be finicky during setup, Sblive.com's site not much help
I bought this Sound Blaster Platinum 5.1 card on 4/30/01 for $168.95. This sound card is literally the Ferrari of sound cards. The Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1 is a high performance engine that needs to be fine-tuned just like a Ferrari. If you...
Pros: Onboard 32 bit digital processing with Fiber optic inputs. Plug and Play compatible and easy installation. Great support from Creative Labs Cons: .............................
I had been in the market for a sound card for about 2 months. Review after review. I must have read over 20 articles on different manufactures. I was about to give up. But then, I heard about the Sound Blaster Live. I remember all the talk about...
Pros: Wonderful sound, 4 speaker support, live drive panel, industry standard for games Cons: Widely discussed incompatibilities with VIA chipset motherboards, Live Drive not supported by most software
The good:
The Live works in a PCI slot and provides backwards compatibility for older games that run in dos mode (even though I don't know too many people that own any games anymore than run in dos. Maybe the kids would find this an attractive...
Pros: Live! Drive is very cool and handy, excellent sound quality, some good bundled titles. Cons: Some of the software is irritating and useless, and it's a fairly pricey item.
Now, I will most certainly admit that I know little about sound systems, and I'm still pretty baffled by the extent of how far they've come in the way of personal computers. I remember when, in the not too distant past, I was mystified by desktop...
Pros: Sounds Incredible! Easy access to any input or output. Remote control Cons: Requires alot of resorces and is very processor intensive
_I hate to be completely one sided on my opinions, but it will be hard to be anything less in this opinion. I am a serious gamer but have always used the "on board" sound for my games hooked to a decent speaker system. When I did decide to upgrade my...
Pros: Surround Sound, fairly good sound, high compatibility with games, front access to plugs, remote control. Cons: Front access to plugs sometimes hard to route AC-3 cable to stereo receiver.
Background
Due to the PC’99 spec, when I replaced all my motherboards, I no longer had any ISA slots, so I had to part with my AWE gold soundcards :( . My first attempt was with a soundblaster 128, but due to compatibility issues with DOS games, it...
Pros: Flexibility, features, front digital input, incredible sound quality Cons: Some of the bundled software is useless
WOW!!! What else can you say? Never in my whole 10+ years with computers have I been this excited about a $170 part before.
Two weeks ago, I installed the SoundBlaster Live! Platinum card, which comes with what Creative Labs calls a ‘Live!...
Ever since I have owned a computer, I have always had Creative Soundblaster cards. I recently built myself a new system and decided to go all out on the sound card and bought the Soundblaster Live! Platinum. What a mistake.
Pros: Good sound quality, cool breakout box. Cons: Expensive.
The Live Platinum certainly comes in a very impressive box, doesn't it? It's big and the contents are equally impressive. The Live drive really stands out and there's a excrement load of software bundled with it. But is the Platinum for everyone?...
Pros: DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 DECODER, awesome EAX, Remote control, front panel connections, EMU10K1 upgradable sound accelerator Cons: Won't go get the paper, not a cup holder, won't go to prom with you
Oh man, where do I start? This sound card is the best on the market, and will be for a long time. I bought this card to take advantage of my four point surround speakers, and to get the best quality while doing so. It does that and so much more.
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Pros: Superb sound, good software bundle Cons: no optical output
Last year Creative Labs took a quantum leap in the quality of sounds cards. No, I am not talking about the first generation Aureal PCI soundcards that Alan reviews when he recommends against the Sound Blaster Live Platinum, I am talking about a line of...
Pros: loaded with features, good drivers, easy to install Cons: comes with too much garbage demos on the install cd
The Sound Blaster Live Platinum 5.1, a card not designed for the casual gamer, or the one that listens only to MP3s wishing they could actually record, master, and then play back themselves. Sure there is another card in the line for that......the...
Pros: On board hardware AC3 decoder. Live Drive 2 w/remote. Hardware full-Duplex. Super software bundle. Cons: Some chipset problems are known. The price is not worth it for a general gamer.
Being that I have always been an owner of the Sound Blaster series of cards, I decided that I would add their latest and greatest model to the new computer I have been building for myself. I decided to purchase the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum with...
Pros: awesome sonuds and package! Cons: liveware (read the review)
I was shopping around for a good soundcard. It was either between the SoundBlaster Live series or Aureal. Since Creative Labs has much better driver support and has a wider range of products in the market, I decided to go with the SoundBlaster Live...
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