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Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum

Description: Model ID 7000476002002 / Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum - Sound card - 32-bit - 48 kHz - 3D Sound - PCI - EMU-10K1 / Sound Blaster Live! ... more

Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum ... Platinum brings you the ultimate audio experience, whether you're downloading Internet audio, playing PC games, creating your own music, or enjoying other kinds of entertainment on your PC. Sound Blaster Live! Platinum provides the combination of digital-quality audio, a full-featured software bundle, and connectivity to external devices from the front of your PC instead of the back! The featured Live! Drive offers front panel connection to home stereo receivers, MIDI instruments, digital services, headphones and more.

Sound Blaster Live! Platinum comes with all the music/MP3 creation and gaming software you will need in order to experience the best audio possible on your PC. The card is powered by the superior EMU10K1 audio processor, which allows audio and effects to be processed in real-time for encoding MP3 and other audio files with Environmental Audio effects. Environmental Audio simulates the acoustical properties of an environment that you can customize such as: concert hall, stadium, underwater and much more. Add preset effects for jazz, pop, rock, and more, similar to your home stereo presets. You can even create a whole new dimension to your listening experience enhancing your MP3 and other audio files by adding synchronized visual animation with LAVA's interactive music scenes. Utilize the full potential of Sound Blaster Live! Platinum when connected to multi-channel speakers such as Desktop Theater or FourPointSurround speakers for pure digital surround sound. Or take your music to go with you with Creative Nomad, portable digital audio player. Sound Blaster Live! Platinum provides the combination of digital quality audio, a full-featured software bundle and connectivity to your PC. If you're looking for the BEST audio experience, Sound Blaster Live! Platinum does it all.

Newest Review: ... the card are also well worth the money. Coupled with a good graphics card (such as an NVidia GeForce 2MX) and a decent spec ... more

... computer, game play enters a new dimension! The sound quality just envelops you in the game, and even with a standard two speaker set-up you really get into a game. Overall, I think that this is one of the best sound cards on the market if you don`t want to move into the professional range, and I will never, ever go back to using a Creative PCI 64, which I had before!! ...more

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Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum: WOW!! Creative's best! (368 words)
by pow1983 - written on 18/09/00 (Very useful, 129 readings)
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This sound card is from a well known soundcard manufacturer. And has yet to fail me with their sound quality. I would like to point out that this sound card works well with A creative Labs DXR3 MpegCard and Creative's Cambridge SoundWorks Desktop Theatre 5.1! More about the Card: PROS: Fast reliable and a good brand name. You get a front panal with lots of sockets, where you have your CDRom, which is so useful if you use a headphone or microphone as you dont have to fumble around the back of the PC to find the right socket, I have never seen anything like it! It sets up your sound to be used with games, music or DVD movies without you having to do ...

Dont wake the neighbours, the neighbouring countries that it (425 words)
by 2000andone - written on 13/09/01 (Very useful, 291 readings)
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I purchased the Soundblaster Live Platinum soundcard after I received a set of Cambridge Soundworks DTT3500 speakers for christmas. I had brilliant sound quality just from the speakers but in my stupidity of youth I thought why the hell not make it even better, and how right I was. After installing the soundcard in a free PCI slot and placing the Live Drive in the front of my tower then connecting all the cables I was all set to start making some noise. I flicked the switches to get my pc in motion and like stated in the manual the card was detected and windows went about installing the drivers off the provided CD. But no I then got a error and couldnt do ...

Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum: Say Again? (486 words)
by - written on 17/09/01
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At my college over the past few weeks we have been experimenting different things with a computer system, hopefully this will mean I can do some good detailed reviews for you to read over the next few weeks. Creative Labs took its fantastic Live! sound card and kicked it up a notch in an all new version called the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. The Sound Blaster Live! Platinum comes with a ton of software that will let you do everything from playing MP3 files to recording your own tracks. It also includes a few games. Creative Labs ships the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum sound card with more than two-dozen software titles. The most intriguing ...

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Technical Details for Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum

Product Description	Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum - sound card
Device Type	Sound card
Enclosure Type	Plug-in card
Interface Type	PCI
Signal Processor	EMU-10K1
RAM Installed ( Max )	32 MB
Sound Output Mode	3D Sound
DAC Data Width	32-bit
Sample Rate	5 kHz (min) - 48 kHz (max)
Max Speakers Qty	4
Controls	Via software
Package Type	Retail
System Requirements	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 95/98
Manufacturer Warranty	1 year warranty