Binding: Electronics Brand: Creative Labs EAN: 5390660057762 Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Creative Labs Manufacturer: Creative Labs Model: 70SB030000002 Platform: Windows 2000 Publisher: Creative Labs Studio: Creative Labs Warranty: 2 years warranty
Editorial Reviews:
This external USB 2.0 ready sound system delivers high fidelity audio plus powerful features that will make you wonder how you put up with your basic PC or Notebook audio for so long! It delivers superior playback of many formats including DVD-Audio up to 24-bit/96kHz/5.1 and also WMA/MP3 music, while also catering for recording at up to 24-bit/96kHz. The quality listening experience is assured through the expert implementation of high-quality components plus advanced audio features allowing users to get a sound that only Creative can deliver! Audio Playback satisfaction is guaranteed through the advanced audio tools, such as SVM, Audio Clean-up and CMSS 3D that provide incredible control and interaction with any type of audio. The compact and stylish design even allows audio playback to be controlled from a distance using the supplied remote control.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX Comment: Got it about 3 years ago. Works great and has lots of features. Used it for my laptop then I transferred over to a new desktop with ease and get better sound than with the built-in audio card.
The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because recently it started having power issues and now no longer works. Although the lifetime of it may be lacking, it is relatively cheap and has great quality. Customer Rating: Summary: Great product - while it lasts =/ Comment: I have owned one of these for 2.5 years, and until this last month, it worked fabulously. The only improvement would be if it could work as a stand-alone unit. Then all of a sudden this month, it won't power on anymore. Creative won't do anything for me or the countless other customers who are having the same problem. Go to their forums and search for "audigy 2 nx power" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Overall I'd say its a risky investment. It will run great for a while, then die out on you and Creative won't do jack to help you. Customer Rating: Summary: Great product, does not work with Mac OS X Comment: I have bought this product on eBay refurbished and it is a great value for the money. You cannot find a digital decoder for under $125 on the internet right now. I wish it would work as standalone without the conection to computer, connecting the input and outputs directly, but it does not. It does the conversions in software.
This product is missing drivers for Mac OS X and Creative does not plan to provide them. The usb-audio site does not support it either. So it is usable only with Windows. It does start play music in initialization phase for Mac, but then it finds out it is Mac it is talking to and stops. Strange.
I gave it 4 stars because it does not advertise working with Mac, but I didn't give it 5, because it just should not actively try not to work with it. Just complying with USB audio standards would be enough to do so. Customer Rating: Summary: superb sound quality Comment: I got this Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX for my birthday
and it has pretty much been a blast. I say pretty much
because there were a few hiccups along the way. First,
my computer, a Dell Latitude D610, had problems recognizing the device even after I followed the directions to the letter.
Turns out I needed to install the newest Intel chipset drivers.
With that being fixed, I got a blue screen saying a driver
had crashed the system. Rebooted and never got it again.
My laptop still refuses to recognize the device after coming
out of hibernation. Rebooting the machine fixes that.
That's why I gave the device only 4 stars.
Now, on to the good stuff: sound quality. This thing rocks!
I'm currently listening to the DVD-Audio sample disk through
a long RCA cable to my NAD 2200 amplifier and hooked up to
a pair of JBL LX500 speakers. The quiet moments are really quiet
and the loud moments are very good. The NAD amplifier with its
large dynamic range is perfect for hooking up to this device.
There's one song on the sample disk, "Superqueen" by Jet 68, that
confirms the JBL's status as rock speakers. That's what the Audigy 2 NX does--it makes sure the source is pure as can be
so that the rest of the chain can work as they were designed to. It's 10x better than the onboard sound in my laptop and noticeably better than the Audigy card in my desktop machine.
5 stars for the sound quality minus 1 for the installation troubles. There's also the issue of finding the songs that Creative put on the demo CD.
They must've scoured the far corners of the Earth because I can't
seem to find them at all. If anyone has a clue, let me know.
