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*HOT* Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit Sound Card for $9.99 AR.

Front / rear / line in / mic?

I had a TBSC - IIRC, software allowed the extra port to change functions..maybe it's something like that.
 
Originally posted by: neutralizer
Good deal, if you throw in a paper clip, something with greater than $0.01 price, you get free shipping too.
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Filler item
$0.97. Cheapest thing I found to use as a filler item. Probably useless to most of us, but I would just look at it like "$0.97 shipping".

There are a number of items in "Cables, Parts & Connectors -> Connectors & connectivity" that are under $2.

Great deal for those in the market for a sound card.
 
I was under the impression that the audigy 2 was the first true 24/96 card from creative.

At any rate, this is a decent price for a soundcard thats better than onboard (unless you have intel HD sound thingy).
 
Originally posted by: Devistater
I was under the impression that the audigy 2 was the first true 24/96 card from creative.

At any rate, this is a decent price for a soundcard thats better than onboard (unless you have intel HD sound thingy).
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It was. The Live! 24-bit is actually a very different creature from the original Live! line and IIRC came out after the Audigy 2 as a budget card.
 
Wasn't this the card that Creative got sued over because it wasn't a 'TRUE' 24 Bit Resolution card?? Am I thinking of another card? The original Audigy wasn't true 24 Bit either was it?? I don't remember anymore.



Jason
 
Does anyone know about the 24-bit abillity formulav8 mentioned?

Jittos, how much is the add-on module?

I don't recall ever seeing a Live! card without a joystick port but this is on Creative's site.

I have a Live! Platinum card. Platinum just means that it came with the breakout box for a 5.25" bay. It doesn't work in XP. I KNOW I tried it with it's install disc. I THINK I tried it with the driver from their site.
 
Yeah, can anyone confirm whether I am right or not? I am interested in this but want a true 24Bit card, and I think something with this card keeps it from being a true real 24Bit sound card.


JAson
 
From some quick research I AM right that this doesn't appear to be true 24 bit. Creative didn't have a TRUE 24Bit card until the Audigy2.

The Audigy1's so-called 24Bit support is, as quoted from Hardware Analysis: 'the 24-bit signal was internally down mixed to 16-bit'


Since this card appears to be older technology than the Audigy1 you can be sure that Creatives 24Bit support is also: internally down mixed to 16-bit.

Hardware Analysis - Audigy2 Review


JAson
 
I have a Live! Platinum card. Platinum just means that it came with the breakout box for a 5.25" bay. It doesn't work in XP. I KNOW I tried it with it's install disc. I THINK I tried it with the driver from their site.
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Hold on... this card will not work with Windows XP?


 
Originally posted by: Wag
Hate to break it to you but even the Xi-Fi still downmixes everything to 48k.
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Well, from what I have seen thus far, that statement is not correct. It appears that Audigy2 brought real 24Bit. I will check out somemore if I get the time.



Jason
 
I googled for the digital I/O cards, and found this page: http://atlas.csbnet.se/livecenter/showpage.php?id=10&page=1

These things are really hard to come by now as they used to be popular back only in the Live and Live Value days. I'm hoping with this release of Live 24, the demand will be back, and people will start producing again. (Note: the cheapest card is from hoontech for $19, but can anyone access www.hoontech.com? I couldn't.)

Anyhow, if you look at the last page of the article, there's link to how to make your own digital output for those DIY-ers.
 
The Live 24-bit is a slightly modified version of the Audigy LS. Its DSP is not a EMU10kx and all EAX is done in software. It uses a high quality Wolfson DAC for 7.1, just like that Chaintech Envy24 card.
 
HamHam,
The card in this thread does support XP.
Mine was an old Live! Platinum card. I think it was 5.1.
It cost me $100.
Not to be confused with the card from Radio Shack in this thread.
I'm looking to get this hot deal the OP alerted us to.

Does anyone know how this card compares to the MadDog 6.1 that CUSA sometimes has for free AR?

 
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