Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE - sound card

Manufacturer: Creative Labs Inc. Part number: 30SB057000000

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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 ... Read more

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10 stars

fine product for audio

by cnetfan0 on October 19, 2006

Pros: easy to use, good help, great player

Cons: nonexxxxxx there are none

Summary: I would buy this again in a heartbeat. It was a bit difficult, however, to find out which model would be adequate for my needs. I could have easily bought ...

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Summary: I would buy this again in a heartbeat. It was a bit difficult, however, to find out which model would be adequate for my needs. I could have easily bought a more expensive one, which would have been overkill. For most audio stuff this is the ticket.

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3 out of 3 users found this user opinion helpful.
6 stars

Very Nice card I'm sure... When it works!

by matoumatou on December 13, 2006

Pros: Worked Great ! ! ! for approx. 1.5 min while running iTunes, Real Player, ezCd, and WMP.

Cons: Unfortunately My MB has a ViA chip set so I'm knocking their rating down from 8 no to a 7 no 6! Because...

Summary: Worked Great ! ! ! for approx. 90 seconds when running iTunes, Real Player, or WMP.

Purchased mine at BestBuy and brought mine back and exchanged the Audigy SE for a Dynex 5.

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Summary: Worked Great ! ! ! for approx. 90 seconds when running iTunes, Real Player, or WMP.

Purchased mine at BestBuy and brought mine back and exchanged the Audigy SE for a Dynex 5.1-Channel PCI Sound Card. I saw this card had a ViA chip the same as my MoBo. The Dynex has worked great for 3 days now, and I've had no problems at all! I thought about getting the X-Fi Xtreme card. But I went with
the Dynex card which had the ViA chip and also had the same download site ViaArena.com as my ViA MoBo.
Unfortunately for me My MB has a ViA chip that I have found does not seem to run well with the Audigy SE Card!
I had trouble loading their drivers, I did not want to start reloading Windows, Flashing My Bios, or updating my MoBo drivers.
As Creative web support suggested. Creative also made it very difficult to find their customer service Phone #.

So on the (+) side
1. The Audigy SE did sound a bit better but I only had about 90 seconds to judge.
2. And I also liked their equalizer that the Dynex did not have.

On the (-) side Creative lost a quite a few points from me along with this card rating for the following reasons.

1. It did not work with my Via Mo Bo.
2. They had No support phone # with box.
2. No Support phone # at Creative.com website.
3. When the Creative site said 60 day free phone support!
4. Then I thought I had found their support # when I saw an 1-800 support # on a site that was selling it!
But NOOOOO!
5. They gave me another # to call!!! And it was not an 800 # of course!
So I gave up looking and just brought mine back to BestBuy and picked up the Dynex card.
6. They had no live online tech support.
7. The online tech support they do have did not have my problem listed either!

Was going to give the Audigy SE a 7 rating but now that I have thought about it I have to give it a 6 and to Creative I give a BIG THUMBS DOWN!

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3 out of 4 users found this user opinion helpful.
8 stars

Good sound,good price

by George Trenchef on June 7, 2008

Pros: Sounds good,cheap

Cons: Some poblems with EAX in some games and certain drivers

Summary: I've got this card for several monts now.Got it for around 30$(in BG).I'm using it with HiFi headphones,and souds quite good.The sound is ...

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Summary: I've got this card for several monts now.Got it for around 30$(in BG).I'm using it with HiFi headphones,and souds quite good.The sound is clear and accurate,without any noticeable distortions or noise.I've done some tests with Right Mark Audio Analyzer 6.1.0,and the results are good-low distortion,high dinamic range,low noise.Even better than some expensive cards.The software bundled is rich enough-EAX console,Equalizer,Wave Studio,Recording...etc.Performs EAX in some games,like POP,but others just won'e enable it no matter it supports EAX 3.0.That was for the original drivers in the bundle CD.Installing drivers for Audigy SE from Creative's oficcial website makes it sound poor,however it enables EAX in most apps.Whatever,for games you should buy an X-FI,but for music this one is just fine.

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9 stars

Had it for a month and works great

by Coronium on January 13, 2008

Pros: Good sound for the price

Cons: Input ports are too close together

Summary: My on board RealTek sound card gave up and I was going to buy the Dynex because of the reviews. WalMart didn't have any so I bought the Audigy ...

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Summary: My on board RealTek sound card gave up and I was going to buy the Dynex because of the reviews. WalMart didn't have any so I bought the Audigy SE anyway hoping it would be okay. I deleted the old drivers and disabled the motherboard sound. The on board RealTek sound was flakey anyway and I was always rebooting to get it to work. One review said they had trouble getting the Audigy SE to record but since I wasn't planning to record, I bought it anyway. I installed the card and it works amazingly well. It is so much better than the on board sound card. For making picture presentations with music with ProShow, it does the job very well.

However, I then needed to take some material off a cassette and put it in a presentation and I was concerned if the card would record okay. When I got the connection made and the software installed, it recorded with the microphone port just like I would expect. The ports are close together and I had so sand some of the rubber off one to get the plugs to go in correctly. Other than that, I have been pleased with this card and I would buy this again without hesitation.

I don't know about their technical support because I have not needed to use it.

This was my experience and I hope this has been helpful.

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7 stars

I give it a 7.1 as advertised...maybe even a 7.5

by Sleightly Dangerous on July 6, 2007

Pros: Priced just right, and puts out quality sound. Good software included.

Cons: Mine seems to be going out after 14 months...on a 12 month warrenty.

Summary: I have owned this card for 14 months as of today. And last night it started to die on me. I paid 29.99 at a local and I did ...

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Summary: I have owned this card for 14 months as of today. And last night it started to die on me. I paid 29.99 at a local and I did not get the extended warrenty...O well. As for the perfromance of the Creative SB Audigy SE, I give it a solid 7.1. This is a good card if ypou want just a little bit more from your PC. Creative also just realeased a new driver making it compatiable with Vista and also fixing some of the XP bugs. Also I should note the Creative customer service is also about a 7.1. Everytime I had an issue that was not addressed in the knowledge base or on the Creative forums, all it took was one email and I had my answer in less than 12 hours. One time they even called me and helped me over the phone with some software issues. All in all the SB Aud SE is worth every penny. If you plan playing a lot of music and or gaming you may want to think about the next card up. Well it off to Frys and time to U/G...Later & Out, RJ

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4 stars

Can be a good card

by 21kev on February 7, 2007

Pros: works good with windows 2000

Cons: Does not work with Windows 98

Summary: I bought two of these cards, one for a windows 2000 machine and one for a windows 98 machine. This card will NOT work with windows 98. The install program ...

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Summary: I bought two of these cards, one for a windows 2000 machine and one for a windows 98 machine. This card will NOT work with windows 98. The install program pops up with an error that you need to upgrade your operating system. Manual install of the drivers will not work. On the win2k machine this card works well for gaming and playing music.

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Manufacturer: Creative Labs Inc.
Part number: 30SB057000000
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.

General
Device Type Sound card
Enclosure Type Plug-in card
Interface Type PCI
Processor / Memory
Signal Processor Creative Audigy SE
Audio Input
Type None
Audio Output
Sound Output Mode 7.1 channel surround
DAC Data Width 24-bit
Sample Rate 8 KHz (min) - 96 KHz (max)
Signal-To-Noise Ratio 100 dB
Voice Polyphony Qty 64
Response Bandwidth 10 - 40000 Hz
Max Speakers Qty 8
Features SoundFont Bank technology, EAX ADVANCED HD, Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) - 3D
Compliant Standards EAX 3.0
Audio Modes Playback : 24-bit 96 KHz 7.1 - 100 dB, Record : 24-bit 96 KHz - 100 dB

Expansion / Connectivity
Interfaces 1 x Audio - SPDIF input/line-in/microphone - Mini-phone 3.5 mm, 1 x Audio - Line-out (rear/right surround) - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x Audio - Line-out/headphones - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x Audio - Line-out (center/subwoofer/left surround) - Mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm, 1 x Audio - Line-in - 4 pin MPC
Compatible Slots 1 x PCI
Compatible Bays None
Miscellaneous
Package Type Bulk
Software / System Requirements
Software Creative Software Suite, Creative MediaSource
OS Required Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows XP SP1, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Min Processor Type 1 GHz
System Requirements Details Celeron - RAM 128 MB
Manufacturer Warranty
Service & Support 2 years warranty
Service & Support Details Limited warranty - 2 years

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