Pros: Nice price, rich sound, good brand. Cons: Incomplete drivers for Windows 2000.
I purchased the Philips Seismic Edge from Best Buy when I saw that it was a 4 channel sound card costing only $40 dollars. Traditionally, I have only purchased Creative sound boards, but I thought I would go out on a limb and give this company a try....
Pros: Love the black PCB Cons: Bad support from Philips, poor drivers
I bought this card based on good reports I'd heard about it's big brother, the Acoustic Edge. What I didn't realize what that this card features a different DSP (Digital Signal Processor), which obviously makes quite a difference.
Pros: Dead quiet (no noise), reasonably priced, very good EAX and Aureal synthesis, fine support. Cons: Incomplete 5.1 support, not the beefiest software addons, no equalization software.
In Windows-based computer system sound cards it had been Creative Labs' SoundBlaster series or pretty much nothing until a couple of years ago.
One multinational electronics company well-positioned to make inroads into the SoundBlaster Empire was...
Pros: Great sound quality,INEXPENSIVE, no flashy bloat-ware like Creative: just good PC audio. Cons: Where's the true 5.1? Questionable product support
I build and tweak PCs as a hobby in addition to having sold audio equipment back in High School, and I must say I'm impressed with this card.
Out-of-box, this soundcard comes with the necessary guides and hardware to get a novice computer user...
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