Creative Labs SB4670 Sound Blaster Live! Value Card

Amazon.com Product Description
The #1 Audio Solution for Digital Entertainment and Gaming. Sound Blaster Live! Value is the top audio solution for your games, movies, CDs and other digital entertainment. With its support for today's leading audio standard, Environmental Audio, Sound Blaster Live! Value creates real-life multi-dimensional sound and multi-textured acoustical environments for the most realistic 3D audio experience. Its powerful EMU10K1 audio processor delivers audio at optimum CPU performance with the highest fidelity and absolute clarity. Combine it with a four-speaker set-up and you'll experience realistic 3D audio, Environmental Audio in supported games, and enjoy your movies with true surround sound. The Live!Ware upgrade program will keep your Sound Blaster Live! Value card up to date with continual upgrades supporting future technologies, functionality, and features. For digital entertainment enthusiasts and gamers looking for added value, nothing comes close to Sound Blaster Live! Value - the best choice for experiencing the best of digital entertainment and gaming.

Product Description:
Interested in a powerful audio/gaming experience? With the Sound Blaster Live! Value, the home audio user, gamer or multimedia enthusiast can hear Hollywood-quality audio and amazing special effects on any audio source. Listen to game and music content come alive using the analog four-speaker output - even if your sound source doesn't support 3D sound! The Sound Blaster Live! Value utilizes the same EMU10K1 audio processor as the Sound Blaster Live!, the most powerful audio chip available today. This translates into higher frame rates in your games, more bandwidth for 3D audio and an all around fantastic sounding audio experience.

Creative Labs SB4670 Sound Blaster Live! Value Card

Average customer rating:

A quality card for a low price
INCREDIBLE!
Amazing
So Much hassle, it must be live.
Don't let the "Value" part fool you!

Creative Labs SB4670 Sound Blaster Live! Value Card

Manufacturer: Creative Labs
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

For digital entertainment and gaming
Supports Environmental Audio
Realistic 3D audio experience
True surround sound
Multi-textured acoustical environments

ASIN: B00000J57A

Product Description

Interested in a powerful audio/gaming experience? With the Sound Blaster Live! Value, the home audio user, gamer or multimedia enthusiast can hear Hollywood-quality audio and amazing special effects on any audio source. Listen to game and music content come alive using the analog four-speaker output - even if your sound source doesn't support 3D sound! The Sound Blaster Live! Value utilizes the same EMU10K1 audio processor as the Sound Blaster Live!, the most powerful audio chip available today. This translates into higher frame rates in your games, more bandwidth for 3D audio and an all around fantastic sounding audio experience.

Amazon.com Product Description

The #1 Audio Solution for Digital Entertainment and Gaming. Sound Blaster Live! Value is the top audio solution for your games, movies, CDs and other digital entertainment. With its support for today's leading audio standard, Environmental Audio, Sound Blaster Live! Value creates real-life multi-dimensional sound and multi-textured acoustical environments for the most realistic 3D audio experience. Its powerful EMU10K1 audio processor delivers audio at optimum CPU performance with the highest fidelity and absolute clarity. Combine it with a four-speaker set-up and you'll experience realistic 3D audio, Environmental Audio in supported games, and enjoy your movies with true surround sound. The Live!Ware upgrade program will keep your Sound Blaster Live! Value card up to date with continual upgrades supporting future technologies, functionality, and features. For digital entertainment enthusiasts and gamers looking for added value, nothing comes close to Sound Blaster Live! Value - the best choice for experiencing the best of digital entertainment and gaming.

Customer Reviews:

A quality card for a low price.......2002-10-10

If you are attempting to build or upgrade a computer on a budget, Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live! Value card is more than worthy of your consideration. I've recently moved up to a better sound card, but the Live! Value card gave me three years of quality audio on my old computer. It is more than capable of providing true 3D sound depending on your speaker setup. The Environmental Audio options feature preconfigured settings for a number of popular PC games, and they also make for some interesting types of audio atmospheres for your CD music, featuring such options as padded room, forest, hallway, arena, etc. I did sometimes run into a problem playing music CDs in Windows Media Player or Real One Player-sometimes my Environmental Audio settings seemed to override my individual player settings and sometimes they didn't. Overall, though, music CDs will sound quite good with this sound card and will suit the needs of most users. All but the most intense gamers should also be happy with this card's performance. If you want better audio, you naturally need to pay a little more for a more technologically advanced sound card. For the average user, this card will more than meet your audio needs without inflicting significant damage on your wallet.

INCREDIBLE!.......2002-07-14

This is an INcredible sound card, supports eax, makes the games sound enviormantal realstic and 3d sound extreme, and is a very realstic and great sound card I'd reccomend for any dvd viewer or musician or gamer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing.......2000-01-08

This soundcard is amazing. The sounds you get out of it are so lifelike. From playing games to listening to music, the difference can be heard. Also, if you have a surround sound speaker system, you should definitely get this because you'll definitely be experiencing games and music rather than just listening to them. No wonder Creative says "Sounds so real - it's live!"

So Much hassle, it must be live........2000-01-07

There is no doubt in my mind that this is one of the cleverest and most delicious sounding cards around, but I honestly think Creative have lost their way with driver creation. I know of at least 4 PC's that have refused point blank to operate using Liveware 3, my own included, yet they all work beautifully on Liveware 2. The interface could be simpler for the not so audio-savvy, and it seems there are too many ways to do (and hence screw up) the same things. A basic graphiv equaliser would have been a nice touch too. Midi is no great improvement over the old awe series, certainly not worth bragging about, but that's no great insult as the AWE's were superb for their day anyway. Games fans will find the environmental audio implementation a welcome bonus, with simulated positional effects and faithful reproduction of sound in various situations (sounds become muted in carpeted areas and echo around in bare caverns etc.), but the game needs to support EAX to begin with. You may find this card doesn't want to play your older DOS based games, and to be fair, Creative claim only partial SB16 compatability. Were it not for the slightly fussy interface, the iffy drivers and the so-so DOS support, this card would have easily earned 5 stars, and if it goes in your system without wanting to fall over the way it did in mine and several PC's I know of, then it's worth every last penny.

Don't let the "Value" part fool you!.......2000-01-04

When I bought this card, I was a little worried that getting the "Value" version of the offering might lose something. When I got it home and installed, I realized that was uncalled for.

This sound card is really excellent. Its a piece of cake to install, open PC, (remove old card if necessary), plug this into a PCI slot, connect CD-ROM, and you're off. The bundled software was also easy to install.

Coming from older style sound cards (8-bit, or SB-16), this will really blow your mind. The sound reproduction is truly awesome - I can even play MIDI files and get something out that sounds half way decent. The piano voice is also outstanding, considering the price of the card. Drums are faithfully reproduced. Some sounds are a little on the tinny side, but acceptable.

The bundled software (as mentioned previously) is easy to install and use. There's the usual kind of hype ("Control your PC by voice"), which I really don't have much time for - it takes too lond to go through all the training stuff for my liking (you might want to take a look at more dedicated software if this what you want a soundcard for, eg. Dragon or IBM products at the lower end).

Game players will be delighted - especially with some of the environmental audio (you can make it sound like you're in a dungeon, or a concert hall, or a ... you get the idea).

Overall, at this price, you really can't go wrong.

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