Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Sound Board

Best computer component purchase...

Strengths: Very low noise levels, even with mic preamp up high. Nice to have the firewire ports as well. 24bit/192khz rocks, though the file sizes so big that I'm getting additional hd (100gb+)

Weakness: included software is more promotional than functional, but I didn't expect much.

Best computer component purchase I've made yet. I'll definately keep this component to use in future platforms. The quality of the instrument recordings I've made with a 30$ condensor mic and the built-in preamp is astonishing. Increased connectivity of the platnium pro makes it worth the additional cost vs ZS and ZS platium models. Highly recommended. I'm using a wave sequencer for editing and...
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Best computer component purchase I've made yet. I'll definately keep this component to use in future platforms. The quality of the instrument recordings I've made with a 30$ condensor mic and the built-in preamp is astonishing. Increased connectivity of the platnium pro makes it worth the additional cost vs ZS and ZS platium models. Highly recommended. I'm using a wave sequencer for editing and rendering, having a blast

By 63636 - Jan 15, 2004

The Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS is a...

Strengths: Great Product, terrific sound, external controla a real plus!

Weakness: None so far, except that the price is a bit high.

The Audigy 2 Platinum Pro ZS is a very nice improvement over the past model. External controls with the ability to have up to 3 line inputs is very helpful to me as I have an ATI All-in-Wonder card and XM Radio for my PC. THX-certified, and other new features are excellent.

By alanpgh - Jan 13, 2004

Creative has done an excellent job...

Strengths: absolutely excellent sound quality, very low background noise, breakout box is very useful

Weakness: Creative Mediasource application and remote control can be more user friendly. This app takes a stab at the type of interface in a Win XP Media Center PC, but falls short.

Creative has done an excellent job with this new version of the Audigy 2 series. They've also managed to clean up the messy and overly complicated drivers and applications included with previous Audigy 1/2 cards. They are definitely headed in the right direction. Now I hope Creative provides regular updates to their new applications to help smooth out some of the rough operation. The good news is...
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Creative has done an excellent job with this new version of the Audigy 2 series. They've also managed to clean up the messy and overly complicated drivers and applications included with previous Audigy 1/2 cards. They are definitely headed in the right direction. Now I hope Creative provides regular updates to their new applications to help smooth out some of the rough operation. The good news is that I've had NO driver or compatibility issues.

The card and breakout box are dynamite and I highly recommend it.

One other nitpik is that Creative increased the ZS series S/N ratio from 106 to 108db. According to a small sheet they placed in the box this change occured at the last minute and did not permit them to reprint the logos printed on the breakout box. So, the breakout box still says 106db. No biggie!

By claykin - Nov 26, 2003

This hardware is simply awesome! I...

Strengths: The BEST from the best. Did you expect any less!

Weakness: NONE

This hardware is simply awesome! I installed the card and firewire closed the box fired it up. I then installed the enclosed software. Now the fun part was going into settings and configuring the sound experience to my personal settings made by going through various sound waves and midi sounds to gain the proper balance of sound through speaker ratio. This makes anything "multimedia" wise to work...
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This hardware is simply awesome! I installed the card and firewire closed the box fired it up. I then installed the enclosed software. Now the fun part was going into settings and configuring the sound experience to my personal settings made by going through various sound waves and midi sounds to gain the proper balance of sound through speaker ratio.

This makes anything "multimedia" wise to work and sound vibrant and makes you think you are listening you are very expensive stereo system.

By rsbl - May 12, 2004

I have had many previous versions...

Strengths: Outstanding unmatched sound quality, It has inputs and outputs for EVERYTHING, No hiss or noise at all; nothing can touch the performance of this system!

Weakness: Expensive, but definitely worth it!

I have had many previous versions of the higher-end SoundBlaster cards, including most recently the Audigy 2 card. The sound quality has improved significantly over past versions, including the Audigy 2. It is expensive, but the increased connectivity of the platnium pro makes it worth the additional cost vs ZS and ZS platium models. Overall, I highly recommend this for high level use.

By ckozan - Jan 26, 2004