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| A next generation PCI sound card that drives up to 6 powered speakers or enhanced to sound like 6 with programmable DSP effects Whatever your computer's Audio setup, the Santa Cruz Sound card Upgrade will have you falling in love with that Digital beast all over again The card is stacked up like a busy airport with cutting edge technology that derives crystalline fidelity from MP3s, CDs, DVDs, games, and future audio sources Santa Cruz drives 2 to 6 powered speakers in Discrete 5.1, quad, or even virtual Surround with Stereo speakers or Headphones Programmable DSP effects will have you riveted slackjawed to your chair Features Cirrus SoundFusion DSP accelerator, which offloads Processing overhead from the host CPU Simultaneous Record & playback up to 48kHz Digital Outputs: 48kHz PCM or AC-3 for external processors 10-band graphic EQ with presets and Peak meters 3 20-bit DACs 10Hz-120kHz (-3dB) SNR: 96dB FS A-weighted THD+N: (-3dB): < -91 dB FS (0.0027%) Requires Pentium 200MHz processor w/MMX or better, 32MB RAM, Win95/98/NT 4.0 (w/SP.4 or higher), PCI 2.1 slot, CD-ROM drive and 69MB Disk space From J&R for $39.99 Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card From Amazon (US) for SANTA CRUZ From TechDepot for $90.95 |
Great product, easy to install. (Rating: 5.00) Review : I found this sound card really easy to install. It sounds great with my AL 5:1 speakers, especially playing games. Who needs SoundBlaster?! (Rating: 5.00) Review : Way back in the day, when SB 8-bit was the coolest thing around.. everyone had one, cause thats what was out. Then a few years back there was some good compition in the sound card market. Creative Labs, and Aureal to be specific. I went Aureal (rip)when I built my last system... and it has lasted me for these last few years. I was never a fan of SB or SB Live! price vs performace, or features for that matter. A3D (i think, and most will agree) kicked EAX right in the pants. My last card, Aureals Vortex SQ2500, I absolutly loved. Music, 3d gaming, all rocked. Matched with Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 I have been totally happy until I upgraded my system (2.4 P4) and to Win XP Pro. Since Aureal went belly up, support for XP just isn't there. I lost quad sound, the great Aureal control panel. Time to upgrade, and i figured SB was going to be the only choice. But I searched around, and found the Santa Cruz. Familiar with the Turtle Beach name, and what info I gathered, seemed wise to purchase one. Awesome. Easy to install, new XP drivers right off the webpage. Music sounds even better to me now. I really like the control panel layout, and a real EQ, like my old Aureal card. Effects sound great, and none of that system hogging, useless software that SB crams on your computer. I reccomend this card for anyone, music lover, gamer.. doesn't matter. Solid card, lots of features, can't go wrong. To top it off, cheaper than SB cards. Only gripe: no games bundled :) Haha, but i can't live with that for sure. Just what I needed: good price, great value (Rating: 5.00) Review : I recently upgraded from basic speakers to a 5:1 speaker set and discovered a hardware problem with my old sound card, a Creative Labs card that was a standard component with my system. The documentation that came with the card wasn't great, and it took a while to identify the problem, so I was looking outside the Creative family for my next sound card. I'd read several good reviews of the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card, so I figured I'd take a shot on it. That shot definitely paid off. I have nothing but good things to say about my new sound card: installation was easy (I only had to unhook the microphone connector from my old card and snap it onto this one), the drivers installed quickly and easily, and the accompanying software was far superior to the software that I had from Creative. There are a host of sound options available: your standard volume-by-source controls, a graphic equalizer that can be turned on and off with several presets, options for multiple speaker setups with an accompanying image showing where your speakers should be connected (2 speakers, 4 speakers, 5:1, and so on), and additional applications if you want to get more involved. I haven't had a chance to put the card through its paces with a decent game, but the difference in listening to my iTunes files is amazing, and the control I have over the music is great. I'd definitely recommend this card to anyone looking for a reasonably-priced, fairly high-powered sound card, and with Amazon's newly-lowered price, it's an even better deal than when I got it. Buy it and enjoy! |
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