Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster MP3+ External Sound Card Sound System

by Creative

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000095IMS
• Item model number: 70SB027000000
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 3, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Getting premium stereo music with your PC or notebook has never been easier! Sound Blaster MP3+ improves the quality of your MP3s and CDs whether you're at home or on the road. Just plug this external USB sound system in and enhance music with the included Creative MediaSource digital player. Listening to your PC or notebook just got dramatically better!

The Premium Stereo Sound System

• High fidelity sound system improves music through Bass Boost and Noise Removal
• Proprietary Smart Volume Management matches volume across MP3 tracks
• Make MP3s and personalized audio CDs in one easy step
• CMSS 3-D delivers virtual surround on stereo speakers and headphones
• Easy one-step hook-up, and convenient portability with no power adapter needed

Improve the Quality of Your Music with Creative MediaSource

Create MP3s, Organize Music, Burn CDs The fully featured Creative MediaSource digital player allows you to make high quality MP3s, manage your music library, and burn personalized CDs.

Easy-to-use features for enhanced CD and MP3 playback.

• Bass Boost: Enhance the bass in your music
• 10 Band Equalizer: Personalize playback of audio frequencies
• Audio Clean-Up: Remove noise from MP3s of old recordings
• CMSS 3-D: Enjoy virtual surround sound on stereo speakers or headphones
• Smart Volume Management: Automatically match volume levels across music tracks
• EAX Effects: Add acoustic effects like Concert Hall to your music

Easy USB Set-Up for PC or Notebook

• Plug directly into any available USB port on your PC or notebook - No power adapter needed!
• Conveniently attach to notebooks with the included removable clip.
• Simply connect your stereo speakers to Line Out with the supplied mini adapter.
• Easily connect to your headphones, microphone, MP3 players and other audio devices.

100% Sound Blaster Certified Audio

• With over 200 million sound cards sold, Sound Blaster is the world's most recognized PC audio brand.
• Enjoy genuine Sound Blaster quality audio with CD audio, MP3 and WMA music playback.

Complete Your Sound Blaster MP3+ Sound System Experience!
Get the full audio experience from your Sound Blaster MP3+ sound system when you combine Creative I-Trigue 2.1 speaker system with your PC or the portable Creative TravelSound speakers with your notebook.

Product Description

Transform Your PC or Notebook into a Premium Stereo System in One Step Getting premium stereo music with your PC or notebook has never been easier! Sound Blaster® MP3+ improves the quality of your MP3s and CDs whether you’re at home or on the road. Just plug this external USB sound system in and enhance music with the included Creative MediaSource™ digital player. Listening to your PC or notebook just got dramatically better! Minimum System Requirements • Intel® Pentium® II 350MHz , AMD K6® 450MHz • Intel®, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard • Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000 SP2 or XP • 64MB RAM for Windows® 98 SE • 128MB RAM for Windows® ME, Windows® 2000 Professional & Windows® XP • 340MB of free hard disk space • Available USB port • Headphones or amplified speakers (available separately) • CD/DVD-ROM drive required for software installation

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good for laptops/notebooks, July 4, 2004

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R. Dowling (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster MP3+ External Sound Card Sound System (Personal Computers)

I own a laptop computer which has decent onboard sound capabilities, but I recently discovered that it only has one audio input -- a microphone jack -- which is mono, and therefore is not suitable for recording stereo sources. Due to the fact that there is no way to install a "real" sound card in it, I needed an external solution. This USB sound system from Creative fits the bill. It didn't make a dramatic -- or even noticable -- difference in the quality of the audio coming out of my speakers; however, it did allow me to digitize my old cassette tapes and vinyl records, which is the main reason I bought it. If your computer can't accomodate a real sound card and its audio abilities aren't good enough for what you need, this might be the solution you're looking for.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Zen solution for better PC sound quality, April 19, 2004

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Eduardo Nietzsche (Houston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster MP3+ External Sound Card Sound System (Personal Computers)

My Dell PC has an integrated soundcard, which provided mediocre-at-best sound quality whenever I tried to listen to Internet radio stations through my compact stereo system. I researched a whole slew of internal sound cards but read too many complaints about software glitches/slowdowns which made me balk at forking out $80 and up for them.

This USB external card does what I need perfectly: at a very reasonable price, I now get CD-quality sound from online music radio stations (the corporate FM stations here in Houston are just too pathetic for words) and without ever having to install any additional software on my PC, so zero noticeable resource drain. Sure if I ever decide to do surround sound (unlikely in my already-cramped home office) or do some cross-medium recording (unlikely due to my lack of time) I may regret not buying a more expensive card---but in the meantime I'm VERY happy with this sleek little baby. Simplicity, functionality, and cost-effectiveness...I couldn't ask for more!

And yeah, the sleek silver casing and flashing blue light are pretty cool too.

BTW, some awesome Net stations with zero commercials, awesome playlists, and free too: di.fm (the classical and modern jazz channels), kexp.org, radioparadise.com

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product, August 9, 2005

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ADC - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster MP3+ External Sound Card Sound System (Personal Computers)

I bought this unit simply as a replacement for my Dell laptop sound card, which was very noisy. What I got was much more.

I use my PC when I am learning new tunes on my guitar, so I usually have my sound card line out going to a small mixer where I mix in my guitar effects unit then ultimately out to a set of powered speakers. The MP3+ fits perfectly into this set up with no noise. I can also change my setup by dropping the mixer and running my guitar effects into the MP3+ line in. This allows me to record my own rhythms to play against.

An unexpected bonus was the fact that I can create tunes using Finale Guitar and then record them to mp3 format simply by selecting midi as the recording source in the media source software. Recording to mp3 is not an option in Finale Guitar, but with the MP3+ it becomes one.

The software that comes with this unit is great for folks like me. Wave Studio and MediaSource Player allow me to record from albums, mp3 players, cd players, XM radio...whatever and trim, fade, cut, loop, slow down, speed up etc.

Not having to deal with a power chord is icing on the cake. I highly recommend this unit to anyone that enjoys playing around with music as a hobby.