Creative Soundblaster Live Value

Probably the best consumer sound cards on the market, they are the result of several innovations down at Creative Labs...it's NOT perfect, as some seem to make out, but these are mostly only noticeable with professional audio gear, so it would maybe be unfair to criticise it for that. For what they are, they can clean the floor with other components at a similar price. I got the Value card, I thought I'd share my experiences of it as an example. INSTALLATION… …was easy enough. The card fits into a standard expansion slot, you connect the CD-ROM audio cable to the CD drive’s SPDIF (Digital audio) output and connect it to the ...

First off, Creative Labs are very highly regarded in the sound card stakes. Their ground breaking cards way back in the murky past were fantastic products, and this card is no exception. It bristles with features and performs fantastically well. For the gamers out there, you just can't beat Creative Labs EAX technology which stands for Environmental Audio eXtensions (I think!) it doesn't matter what it stands for, what it means is that games are more immersive than ever before. Stick a second pair of speakers in the card, and hold on to your hat! Reverb and echo is handled in hardware on the card. So for instance, your gun-toting muscle bound hero is ...

I have had the Sound Blaster Live Value! (Also known as Sound Blaster Live 1024 Player) For some time now and I must confess it is the best sound card I have ever had or seen. It has superb sound quality along side some fantastic features E.G. Via the software that comes with the card you can change nearly every Piece of the sound it puts out to your speakers. The card is best known for it's Environmental Audio (EAX) this adds some of the most outstanding sounds from a game I have ever heard you can hear all sorts of things going on in a game that you wouldn't normally hear , not to mention what you can do with those Audio CD's and MP3's. It ...