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Creative PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Sound Card | 
 enlarge | Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
Buy New: $278.99
New (4) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $91.75
Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 18845
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 2.2 x 0.4
MPN: SB0530
Model: SB0530
UPC: 054651076891
EAN: 0054651076891
ASIN: B00067KZJI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED
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| Features:
| • | Music - Dramatically improve your digital music listening experience | | • | Movies - Enjoy amazing surround sound with headphones and 5.1 or 7.1 speakers | | • | Games - Hear sound effects so real, you'll feel like you're actually in the game | | • | Recordings - Create studio-quality, low-latency recordings with high-fidelity inputs |
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Product Description
Includes: multichannel speaker cable, clear carrying case, Creative premium earphones, & more.Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS for Notebooks - This sound card brings the advanced audio of your desktop to your portable notebook computer. Now, wherever you go, you can enjoy THX certified audio, support for DVD-Audio at up to 24-bit/192kHz, and EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD audio for realistic gaming. Support for Windows Media 9 Pro Built-in Dolby Digital EX & DTS-ES decoding Connectors - Headphone/Optical Out, Microphone In/Line In/Optical In, Multichannel Speaker Cable Jack for Line Out (Front/Rear/Side/Center/Sub) via included cable
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| Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...
 I don't record without it...an immediate upgrade to your audio November 10, 2008
Philip Corriveau (Washington, DC USA)
If you want recordings free of hum and buzz and with little hiss, this will do the trick. I have used this card for voiceover recordings for over two years and have never been disappointed. Good clean signal going in and out--no matter if I use cheap mics or expensive ones. Believe me, I can really tell the difference when I am forced to use most laptops' built-in audio.
Works well with Adobe Audition 3 in WinXP SP2...although configuration with Audition can sometimes be a pain.
 Not for you if you have Vista OS October 17, 2007
Creative customer NOT (Maryland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This card is handcuffed by Vista OS. Few of its cool features work with Vista OS. The Creative web site says it's compatible but in the fine print describes the "Vista" known problems. From the Creative web site:
"Drivers updated from the web will comply with UAA standards. However, due to Microsoft's new Windows Vista(tm) architecture, some features may be lost. Please refer to the Web Release Notes (WRN) found with the new driver downloads for details. In addition, the Creative Speaker Settings will not automatically synchronize with Windows Vista(tm) Speaker Settings."
"Known issues(with the Vista download):
Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download. Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations.
This driver does not support the following:
--Decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS(tm) signals
--DVD-Audio
--DirectSound -based EAX games
--Gameports
--6.1 speaker mode.
--SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only."
"Known Incompatibilities:
There have been reported compatibility problems with PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook and the PCMCIA controllers listed below...
--ENE Tech CB1411
--Ricoh R5C476(II)
--Ricoh R5C475(II)
--TI PCI-1520"
Creative Labs PCMCIA Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook ( 70SB053000012 )
It always worked for me June 9, 2007
Guille Pinto
I like the simplicity of this card and the great sound it has. I have been told that it does not work in all computers and you would have to test it. In mine it did but in a friend's compaq laptop with very similar carachteristics as mine it did not work. So watch out and make sure you can return it. For the ones that work, you are in for a great experience with many different audio options.
 Great specs, sounds great but crashes computer when ... May 20, 2007
Abizar A. Lakdawalla (San Francisco area)
Would give it a higher rating but crashes the Dell Latitude (Win XP) when you stop the device (as recommended) and remove the card! Bought it to use the laptop for Software Defined Radio, where the higher bandwidth would be very useful and a stereo sound in is required (most laptops have mono-in). If you don't try to stop or remove the card then everything works really well. Quite a bit of the software that comes with is pretty badly implemented - sucks up processor power. Hopefully the crash issue will be fixed.
 Great for some things, only so-so for others September 18, 2006
Timothy Downing (Detroit, MI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The analog output was always a little noisy when my laptop was charging.
Creative also fixes their digital outputs so that they only output at one word length and sample rate, (in the case of this card 24-bit, 96 Khz) and I could never for the life of me get them to sync properly with other digital equipment.
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