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Summary: Better Notebook Sound
Review: Although not as good, as the Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster Audigy2 External Sound Card, it gets the job done. My only problem is the lack of a SPDIF output for speaker systems. If you have a receiever that supports optical or even speakers it does transform a laptop into a stereo system. For the price I like it.
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Summary: Better Notebook Sound
Review: Although not as good, as the Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster Audigy2 External Sound Card, it gets the job done. My only problem is the lack of a SPDIF output for speaker systems. If you have a receiver that supports optical or even speakers it does transform a laptop into a stereo system. I only use it for input from games, and for that it works very well. Buy this instead of the Audigy2 if you already have optical speakers or a receiver that supports optical input.
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Summary: Excellent output quality, very noisy input
Review: As another reveiwer has mentioned, the line-in is extremely noisy and is basically unusable. Sound quality on the outputs (line-out and headphone) was excellent though. Sadly mine too is going to be returned and I'm going to try the Audigy NX instead.
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Summary: Noisy LINE-IN input? Get updates from Creative's web page
Review: I bought "Creative Labs Sound Blaster Go! External USB Sound System with Head Phones" and was getting the hissing sound but got rid of it by updating my software and driver.
The noise cancelling headphones are well worth the extra $7, not to mention FREE shipping.
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Summary: Simply Terrible
Review: I bought this almost a month ago in hopes of having a decent sound card capable of worry-free playback and recording. Unfortunately, the sound skips consistently on playback and even more while trying to record. I consulted Creative's support site, did everything they said to do to try and remedy the situation, and nothing changed. I attempted to contact their customer support people, and was told the estimated time for a response was 1 working day. Weeks later, with no response, I sent the item back, since it was a 30 day return policy. I'm still looking for a decent sound card. Do yourself a favor...don't buy this cheap piece of junk.
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Summary: Very poor sound Quality
Review: I bought this to add to my laptop to connect into my HiFi, The sound quality using the line-in was excuricatingly bad...I'm returning it!
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Summary: good for laptops/notebooks
Review: I own a laptop computer which has decent onboard sound capabilities, but I recently discovered that it only has one audio input -- a microphone jack -- which is mono, and therefore is not suitable for recording stereo sources. Due to the fact that there is no way to install a "real" sound card in it, I needed an external solution. This USB sound system from Creative fits the bill. It didn't make a dramatic -- or even noticable -- difference in the quality of the audio coming out of my speakers; however, it did allow me to digitize my old cassette tapes and vinyl records, which is the main reason I bought it. If your computer can't accomodate a real sound card and its audio abilities aren't good enough for what you need, this might be the solution you're looking for.
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Summary: I Use it to Record Voice for Presentations
Review: I use this adapter to record presentations through our P.A. system right to my laptop. You can run any audio through the RCA and it compresses and records directly to MP3. It's a great way to burn presentations right to CD. I haven't tried to use it to beef up my computer sound system, but for $40 it was well worth being able to record voices in a small file size.
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Summary: I Use it to Record Voice for Presentations
Review: I use this adapter to record presentations through our P.A. system right to my laptop. You can run any audio through the RCA and it compresses and records directly to MP3. It's a great way to burn presentations right to CD. I haven't tried to use it to beef up my computer sound system, but for $40 it was well worth being able to record voices in a small file size.
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Summary: simple and seems to work
Review: I've tried this ($), a M-audio mobile-pre USB ($), and a Tascam USB122 ($) on an emachine 5310 laptop. So far it's the best performer of the lot. The others (at more than 3 times the price, minimum) exhibited drop outs in record and playback audio, and had much quieter and distorted headphone outputs. Pluses for this over the others also include a smaller, lighter housing, digital (on optical) I/O, dolby 5.1 pass through on optical. minuses include a mono-only microphone input, no simultaneous digital input with analog monitoring at 44.1khz (seems fine at 48k--there's a mutually exclusive hardware switch governing this behavior). And the driver install puts and AOL trial icon on your desktop. Absolutely infuriating. Oh, and it's 16-bit only, and the timing drifts a bit when doing overdubs in a multitrack recorder like Adobe Audition (cool edit pro). I've yet to try this digitally, I suspect it might work better in this mode. All that said, install was so easy XP didn't even need the drivers installed to recognize the card (albeit as generic usb audio) for basic operation. The drivers were only required to be able to select inputs for recording and for the tone shaping controls. My intent for this device is as a tiny input in the tape loop of a stereo system--yep, the final nail in the coffin of my cassette deck : ), and maybe for some rudimentary field recordings using an external microphone preamp. Bottom line, the thing sounds good, it's nice and small, and hey, it's only ($).
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