Sound Blaster Audigy Se Varpak

Average customer rating: 4.0

Awesome card for the price...
good for the price
Ouch
Great card
BEST VALUE AROUND

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Sound Blaster Audigy Se Varpak

Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000CF0ZXK

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Product Description

The Sound Blaster Audigy SE is an excellent value upgrade to 7.1 surround sound on the PC. Featuring high quality audio specifications including 24-bit/96kHz recording and playback with 100dB signal to noise ratio and digital output, it's the ideal partner for surround music and movie playback. For realistic gaming, EAX ADVANCED HD 3.0 support delivers acoustic effects and detailed 7.1 3D surround sound in gaming. The included Creative Media Source software is a comprehensive tool for creating MP3s, managing a music collection, adding effects and burning custom CD compilations.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome card for the price..........2007-01-22

For those not willing to settle for low quality, this card is among the many to choose from. I use it for recording and it works great. Works great in all situations, games, movies, music, etc.

good for the price.......2007-01-06

The card it's just good for the price really doesn't make a very very big difference with my old sound blaster 5.1, but it's cheap and works well

Ouch.......2006-11-01

For the price you can do a lot worse than a Audigy SE. It does support EAX, kind of and it sounds a notch or two better than your typical onboard audio. However, it has a lot of issues as well. First off, it disables the treble/bass option under the tone control in the control panel. This causes a muffled sound since treble controls the clarity to some degree. The card does come with its own software but the software is merely to beef up the bass, no treble options whatsoever.

Even games suffer greatly because of the fact that the treble can't be adjusted. I really don't know what creative was thinking by creating a card that dismisses this option. Maybe they assumed most speakers have a treble adjustment, don't know. Either way, this card is going back and its being replaced with the audigy 4 SE, which better re-enable the treble option.

In short, like it says on the box, this is a great upgrade from onboard sound. But that isn't saying much. Did I mention even games sound muffled on this thing? I played a few games and the gun shot effect on all of them sounded like the guns had silencers. This is a result of to much bass and not enough treble but that can't be adjusted thanks to the fact that that option isn't enabled on this piss poor card. The soundblaster live was actually a better card, it had those options enabled. This card is actually worse than a card from 6 years ago which is kind of pathetic.

Great card.......2006-03-10

I've held on to my Live! card for years, and it was time for an upgrade. I bought the Logitech 5300e speakers to go with this card, and what an improvement! I'm not an audiophile, just a PC Gamer. And this card made a night and day difference in all of my games. The sound quality and the improved 5.1 and EAX is just awesome. Very cheap in price, very good in it's performance.

BEST VALUE AROUND.......2006-02-04

This is a cheap and powerful soundcard... but firts I must buy a good speaker system... :P

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