Pros: Awesum, Connectivity and diversity!
Cons: Absolutely None..

Extigy; By Creative Labs

What I was shopping for was a device that could bring together our pc and home theatre and thus remove all of the amplifiers and large old home speakers from our entertainment room. The creative labs extigy has proven...

Pros: Great sounding, convenient USB connection, full digital inputs and outputs.
Cons: Mini-jack analog connectors, mediocre microphone jack, lame bundled software.

I've been using an Aureal-based PCI sound card for a few years now with decent results. My favorite part of that card is that it has an optical digital output which allows me to make high-quality recordings to my minidisc recorder. Unfortunately this...

Pros: Quality sound, variety if ins and outs, easy USB hook-up
Cons: Mini-jacks instead of RCA

I'll admit up front that I'm not an audiophile. But I was a DJ for 15 years so I definitely notice when music sounds bad. I just don't go to great lengths or expense to get that last 10% of audiophile quality.

I like to listen to music...

Pros: Professional-quality sound, excellent features, remote control, user-friendly.
Cons: Must use a minijack-to-RCA adapter for component hookups (if applicable). False 96kHz/24bit output advertising.

Let me start this review by describing my situation to you: I, like thousands of other people, am the owner of a laptop computer (a Sony VAIO). The majority of laptops today have only a single analog audio-out port providing stereo sound. The average ...

Pros: Comes in glitzy box.
Cons: Won't really do 24 bits or 96 kHz via USB. Poor input sensitivity.

The alleged features are USB, 24 bit resolution, and
96 kHz data rate. These are prominently mentioned
on the device itself, on the box, and in the
advertising.

But in fact, you cannot send 24-bit data via the
USB to the...

Pros: Sound quality, ease of use
Cons: None at the price

This is a really fun upgrade for a laptop computer. I bought the Extigy because I wanted hifi sound from my laptop computer, so my main criterion is sound quality.

I did experience some installation problems. The installation failed...

Pros: External, Great Sound, Front Headphone Jack, Optical In and Out
Cons: Eats CPU cycles, Conflicts with some core computer components

I was in Best Buy the other day and saw that they were having a sale on sound cards. I went in and saw they were selling the Extigy for 75 USD and decided to buy. I took it home and opened it, installed everything, plugged it in and had music going very ...

Pros: Convenient, Cool look, Remote, Lots of connections.
Cons: USB 1 is a little too slow, not a good Mic input.

I've tried alot of consumer sound cards in search of a solution worth the $150 that I was willing to spend. I've tried some Turtle Beach offerings, and was impressed with the sound, but compatibility issues with my VIA chipset kept me away. I've tried...

Pros: Easy to set up, cheap home theater system
Cons: Two failed remote controls; non-standard speaker connections

I wanted this thing for one reason only - to plug my Home DVD player in to it and listen to movies on my TV in Dolby Surround!

I bought the Creative Inspire 5.1 5300 speakers with it; this turned out to be a good idea as they came with all...

Pros: Small, external, USB, independant volume/mic gain knobs
Cons: No 1/4" inputs, not as feature-packed as the Audigy Platinum

First off, I use my PC as a budget recording studio. Previous to buying my Extigy, I used a SoundBlaster Live! soundcard.

The first thing I noticed was the incredible reduction in hiss/fuzz. I'm told that hiss/fuzz is mostly caused by...

Pros: cheap and easy
Cons: poor drivers, no SMP support, no digital record via S/PDIF

Wow, I'm really surprised this got such high reviews. I bought one a couple months back and I'm so frustrated I'm in the market for a new one.

First off, I regularly get BSOD's on my dual proc XP box because their drivers aren't thread safe....

Pros: Sounds good, fairly inexpensive
Cons: poor software

Price reflects a $50 rebate.

This box works very well in the living room for, for example, playing music from a PC over the family stereo.

It plays nicely with my DVD player. I think that, coupled with an inexpensive set of 5.1...

Pros: can connect laptop to 5.1 speakers will improve laptop sound
Cons: will not give you same features and sound performance as sound blaster pro 5.1

I returned this unit after 5 days because:

Most important: I bought it for the EAX digital effects (reverb, chorus, etc.) , however special settings are not continuously adjustable and there are less of them. There's only 14 effects presets....

Pros: Great sound for my Sony lap top
Cons: none

This is an awesome piece of equipment. I am impressed by the IM Tune internet radio software and the quality of sound from the internet radio stations. You need broadband for it however. The bass is great and surround sound super. I use the system in my...

Pros: Great Price,Great Sound, wonderful for mp3
Cons: Mic in isn't very good, Programs are like a joke

I would rate this item 10 of 10. It is great. You don't have to go threw the hassel of getting on your back and opening up your computer when you can easily install it threw your usb port. The installation took 5 minutes. You can see a difference of...

Pros: It looked good
Cons: The remote didn't work, it never turned on, it only works half the time,

This sound card is a waste of money the program it comes with doesn't work with the remote all u can ...