Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX Soundcard

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• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005PWVU
• Item model number: Platinum eX
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 15, 2001

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX is a professional home studio solution that offers unprecedented high-definition audio, with the flexibility of an external drive.

You'll experience audio clarity with 24-bit multichannel 5.1 sound, and stunning 100 dB SNR. The increased power of the Audigy chip enables EAX Advanced HD to deliver a host of high-definition audio effects with next-generation interactive 3-D audio for gaming and sophisticated effects for music.

The external Audigy drive has the most comprehensive connectors for analog or digital devices, including professional audio gear, home-stereo receivers, optical DACs, MIDI devices, and DV camcorders. You'll also have the advantage of high-capacity connectivity to SB1394-qualified devices like DV camcorders, future NOMAD Jukebox versions, and external hard drives/high-speed CD-RWs.

This high-definition audio card supports Windows 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0, 2000, and Me (Windows XP drivers are available on the Internet). The Creative software bundle includes: Creative PlayCenter 3, Oozic Reactor, Creative RemoteCenter, Creative Surround Mixer, Goldmine Demo, and Vienna SoundFont Studio 2.3. Also included in-the-box is the following music software: ACID DJ 2.0, Beatnik's Mixman Studio Remixer, Cubasis VST, MixMeister 3.0, Fruityloops, Recycle Lite, Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 SE Basic, and WaveLab Lite.

Product Description

Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX is the professional home studio solution that opens up a whole new world of unprecedented high-definition audio with the flexibility of an external drive. You'll experience incredible audio clarity with 24-bit, multi-channel, 5.1 sound and stunning 100dB SNR. The increased power of the Audigy chip enables EAX ADVANCED HD to deliver a host of innovative high definition audio effects with next-generation, interactive, 3D audio for gaming and sophisticated effects for music.The external Audigy drive has the most comprehensive connectors for analog or digital devices, including professional audio gear, home-stereo receivers, Optical DACs, MIDI devices, and DV Camcorders. You'll also have the advantage of high-capacity connectivity to SB1394 qualified devices like DV Camcorders, the future SB1394 NOMAD Jukebox, external hard drives, and high-speed CD-RWs.This Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX card is bundled with Audigy extension card, External Audigy Drive, CD with application, driver and utilities, InfraRed Remote Control and cables. The Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX ships with an external Audigy drive that you can place anywhere outside your PC.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Card but many bugs!, January 5, 2002

By	E. K. Bryant (San Pedro Sula, Honduras) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this card in November because I recently purchased the Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speaker system. At first I was kind of intimidated with all the cables and connections for this card, but after reading the instruction's manual it was pretty straight foward. I was also confused about the PCI connection for this card since it has three slots instead of two, like a typical PCI card, but it fits fine. When the card was perfectly setup inside my PC I proceeded to install the software and drivers provided on a Cd-Rom by Creative. I installed the full version with all the add-ons provided. Then I proceeded to download the Windows XP drivers from the Soundblaster's website. When I was all done I decided to try my speakers with this top of the line card, but my PC froze every time after just a few seconds I started playing a track. Afters many hours of rebooting and brainstorming this problem, I arrived to the conclusion that it was the Creative Playcenter that wasn't holding up on Windows XP. So a word to the wise those who have XP do not install Creative Playcenter or you will suffer the consequences.

Besides this problem, the card works perfectly. The external drive fulfills every music lovers delight. Wether its karaoke or hooking up your TV to your card, it is make this card worthy of its price. My pleasure was hooking up my Playstation 2 with a Toslink fiber optic cable to my pc speakers. Fiber Optics is the way to go, its the neatest sound you will ever experience. The only problem is that my center speaker is not working during DVD play with my PS2, thus the 5.1 experience is ruined. In conclusion, the audigy platinum Ex card is simply for hardcore musicians that use their PC's has home studios or just hi-tech lovers that simply want the best.

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Pleased, September 23, 2001

By A Customer

It wasn't extremely easy to install -- there is a daughter card that doesn't properly seat in the PCI slot, and several internal ribbons that don't work too well in my case. But well worth the hassle! I love the external "drive," which makes access to many ports & controls easy. Hooks up to a wide variety of peripherals, speakers, etc. Great sound, especially with digital speakers. Well worth the money. Let's hope that Creative does a better job than it has over the last few years fo keeping up with the drivers -- "liveware" never lived up to its promise.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music Creators Rejoice, July 3, 2002

By	"knghtofdsk" (Schaumburg, IL United States) - See all my reviews

With the newest audio processor since the days of the Live, Creative has once again outdone itself. With all the power of professional souind boards at hundreds of dollars less. There is no background fuzz while recording from a MIDI input (unlike SBLive!), and the ability to record dual tracks simultaneously makes this board the music creators paradise.

It also sounds remarkable. I hooked up my DVD player, XBox, and even a simple portable discman to the external drive and enjoyed the quality of sound. The DTS decoder works well too. I noticed no distortion after hooking up my Klipsch Pro-Media 5.1 (6 piece) surround speaker set, despite the sound information running from my DVD player to PC, then from PC to Speaker system.

Gaming sound effects are awesome as well. Previous games like McGee's Alice and Deus Ex being high up on the list of games that sound totally awesome. Unfortunately there aren't many games that can fully utilize the new EAX HD capabilities, but the standard regime of FPS games sound great.

This card is by far the best thing to happen to sound cards since the first release of SBLive! Great for making your PC the new household hub for entertainment centers.