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Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook!!!!!!!!

post #1 of 157
10/9/04 at 5:23am
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This is AMAZING. A 24bit sound card that fits into the PCMCIA of a notebook!!!!! It comes out October 22nd and I will have it. It's $129.99!!!! Check it out:

http://creative.com/products/product...&product=10769
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post #2 of 157
10/9/04 at 8:33am
Looks interesting enough but I wonder if it help in the sound volume department on the 3790?
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post #3 of 157
10/9/04 at 9:28am
woah!! score!!!
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post #4 of 157
10/9/04 at 11:09am
that's a damn high price , but i'm sure it will be worth it, especially if it provides a large performance boost just as the PCI Audigy2 did
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post #5 of 157
10/9/04 at 12:17pm
I have a question. In the picture of the pcmcia card, the dark grey plasic part... will that stick out of the notebook? I'm also curious what kind of speaker outputs it uses because you can't get thx out of the headphone jack.
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post #6 of 157
10/9/04 at 12:33pm
Yes the grey part will stick out, and it has a triple 3.5mm jack and SPDIF in/out. It supports 5.1 and 7.1 speakers
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post #7 of 157
10/9/04 at 8:58pm
You think this is better or the Echo Indigo?
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post #8 of 157
10/9/04 at 9:26pm
This has to be one of the coolest things I've read about since PCI-E upgradeable graphics modules! Too bad I can't own either one of them right now.
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post #9 of 157
10/9/04 at 9:55pm
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Originally Posted by Schmohey
You think this is better or the Echo Indigo?
The Creative card will be the obvious choice for gaming and surround sound, as the Echo Indigo is simple stereo output only. The Indigo will probably provide superior sound quality for 2-channel applications, but most users won't be able to tell the difference.
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post #10 of 157
10/9/04 at 10:01pm
I doubt this will load itself with the processing...it will certainly unload more on the CPU than the desktop PCI Audigy cards...how much is the question.

Basically - I dont like sound cards which dont have visible caps. If the caps are invisible then these are tantalum caps which produce crappy sound. It will work but will it work well is the question.

Just my $0.02
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post #11 of 157
10/9/04 at 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by j4ever
This is AMAZING. A 24bit sound card that fits into the PCMCIA of a notebook!!!!! It comes out October 22nd and I will have it. It's $129.99!!!!
This is really only 'amazing' if you've never seen the Echo Indigo line of cards. As always, Creative is a about a year and a half late technology wise. This thing will support EAX stuff, so it's fine for consumer-level gaming, but for the same price the Indigo provides professional-level signal quality while stripping away EAX the marketing speak that Creative is so good at.

So it's useful. Not 'AMAZING' by any means.
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post #12 of 157
10/9/04 at 11:53pm
Hopefully this will work, as opposed to the Echo Indigo on my 5680. Apparently it was the ENE PCMCIA chip, according to the echo guys.
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post #13 of 157
10/10/04 at 12:51am
It supports ASIO which is great news for Foobar 2000 users and audiophiles. However there is no information about the DAC and Op-Amps that they have used in this one...I am sceptical but I will be willing to give it a shot. I have all sorts of external audio solutions for my latop and the best one so far is the M-Audio Audiophile Firewire...Indigo was a disappointment compared to this firewire baby. Audigy 2nx was nice but more for the gamer...im a music guy.

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post #14 of 157
10/10/04 at 2:29am
I disagree to what Khu said. In my book, anything that supports my 5.1 surround sound speaker with distinct 6 channels and comes at a lower than competition prices... deserves an "AMAZING" tag.

I second what someone already said: Most users wont be able to tell the difference between the profesional sound quality with the normal ones.(and by no means am I saying that creative produces "normal" ones. They are excelent in my opinion). Also, Echo Indigo supports stereo. I don't know much about Echo Indigo line, but I'd assume that if the stereo version is already expensive... then the one with equal sound channel a la the PCMIA creative Audigy 2... would blow holes through my pocket then.
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post #15 of 157
10/10/04 at 3:31am
GS, what are tantalum caps? Also, how do these technologies compare to the external USB DAC's from Xitel?
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post #16 of 157
10/10/04 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by gsferrari
My name is gsferrari and I approve this message
Ha ha, that's the best sig I've seen yet.
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post #17 of 157
10/10/04 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by gsferrari
It supports ASIO which is great news for Foobar 2000 users and audiophiles. However there is no information about the DAC and Op-Amps that they have used in this one...I am sceptical but I will be willing to give it a shot. I have all sorts of external audio solutions for my latop and the best one so far is the M-Audio Audiophile Firewire...Indigo was a disappointment compared to this firewire baby. Audigy 2nx was nice but more for the gamer...im a music guy.
I thought I saw over at Head-Fi that you sold the M-Audio Audiophile Firewire?

What are you using now, then?
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post #18 of 157
10/10/04 at 6:04pm
Right now - Xitel Pro USB DAC straight out into a Grace Design 901 using optical path. Stunning
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post #19 of 157
10/10/04 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by SEMC
GS, what are tantalum caps? Also, how do these technologies compare to the external USB DAC's from Xitel?

tantalum caps are cheap caps that you will find in Portable CD Players and anything that needs a lot of crap to go into a small space. I mod my pcdp's and remove the tantalum caps because 10 to 1 they are in the signal path and degrade sound...horrible...

They are small and cheap - and they will, 99% surely, be in this Audigy card. Larger cards use proper electrolytic/film caps but there isnt space on this one so it could be a compromise on sound quality.

How many of you will be able to hear it is a different question

Also - what DAC are they using?
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post #20 of 157
10/10/04 at 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by ChivalricRonin
Hopefully this will work, as opposed to the Echo Indigo on my 5680. Apparently it was the ENE PCMCIA chip, according to the echo guys.
Echo has a utility to tweak the ENE PCCard slot to work with the Indigo. I too asked them about this when I was shopping for a laptop. I ended up with the 8790 which doesn't have ENE, but they offered me the utility.
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