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Santa Cruz retail again is $59.99 this week at compusa!

A great price for (IMHO) still the best consumer sound card on the market. I'm using two now and wouldn't consider anything else.
 
wouldn't consider anything else? hrm...hercules Game Theater Xp comes to mind. Same processor/DSP on the card, but better package because you get the breakout box
 
u may get the breakout box, but from what i've heard, u get crappy driver support...

anyway, there was a deal like that in canada - hence the reason i have mine...picked it up for something like $56 CDN at canada computers...too bad they don't have em anymore..must've been some one time stock of them last summer...

good card tho.
 
Amazing! I was up late last night shopping the e-stores for this card. Wake up and it's on sale at CompUSA. It's now mine for $60. I'm happy 'cause I've read good things about this card. Hopefully it's a good replacement for my very old Soundblaster Live Value. 🙂
 
cmdrdredd wrote:

"Same processor/DSP on the card, but better package because you get the breakout box"

The breakout box sucks. You go ahead and drop an extra $50+ for it, then 🙂 Not to mention, Turtle Beach keeps the drivers updated constantly.

 
The only bit about Canada is that NOONE SELLS IT! You can't find one anywhere! (Well, there was one place at $160CDN... ugh.)
SandBlasters everywhere, a few el-cheapos, no Cruz'in goin' on.
 
bluemax, i hear that...

i've questioned a couple stores and they've told me that they only carry mostly creative because that's what sells, not to mention creative's RMA process is generally better than most other manufacturers...

the only creative product i'd consider buying is the extigy....looks sweet.

i agree that the GTXPs breakout box is ass...
 
I agree. I was one of the early buyers of the Herc GTXP. Sounded great (when it was working properly), but the box was unreliable and the drivers were buggy as hell. Made me switch back to a SBLive for awhile until I could get a Santa Cruz (which I used for awhile until the Audigy came along - sold it). Looking back, I wish I kept the SC as my backup could have used this card.

As good as the SC is, I just want to know when the hell is Sensaura coming out with a new chipset? It's been almost two years now since the SC was released.
 
Yeah, the GTXP drivers by Hercules tends to always have a handful of bugs... most of which I experienced. Also note that there is a difference between the Santa Cruz and GTXP in that the GTXP DOES NOT support Dolby Digital decoding through the drivers as the Santa Cruz, Acoustic Edge, Live! 5.1, and Audigy do. Some might say that that point doesn't really matter because many people have a softDVD player that does it's own Dolby Digital decoding, but I'm a firm believer in always using the decoding done by the soundcard's driver and for future games...
 


<< u may get the breakout box, but from what i've heard, u get crappy driver support...

anyway, there was a deal like that in canada - hence the reason i have mine...picked it up for something like $56 CDN at canada computers...too bad they don't have em anymore..must've been some one time stock of them last summer...

good card tho. >>



i visit that store all the time.. great prices.. but real crappy customer relations.. hehehe..
 


<< A great price for (IMHO) still the best consumer sound card on the market. I'm using two now and wouldn't consider anything else. >>


yes sir! love mine 😀
 
drZone, i hear that...brutal customer relations...funny tho, sort of.



<< As good as the SC is, I just want to know when the hell is Sensaura coming out with a new chipset? It's been almost two years now since the SC was released. >>


uh, sensaura doesn't make audio chipsets...it's like an API for positional audio...CL made the SC's audio chipset.
 
My mistake. I forgot that the chip is actually made by Cirric Logic and I equate Sensaura with them. Anyway, I'm surprised there isn't an update to it yet. Considering how competitive the hardware industry is these days, no one company can rest on it's laurels. Even Creative, who has more breathing space, had to resort repackaging the old EMU101k in slightly updated models.
 


<< surprised there isn't an update to [sensaura] yet. >>



i'm not...almost every other non-creative sound card/audio chipset manufacturer licenses sensuara technology for their chipsets because it's the only real alternative to creative's EAX 2/3

if another alternative came out, one that actually posed a threat to sensaura's, they'd probably update it or something...
 


<< i'm not...almost every other non-creative sound card/audio chipset manufacturer licenses sensuara technology for their chipsets because it's the only real alternative to creative's EAX 2/3

if another alternative came out, one that actually posed a threat to sensaura's, they'd probably update it or something...
>>



My Acoustic Edge uses QSound technology instead of Sensaura.
 
i new someone would bring up qsound and the thunderbird DSP from the philip's line of sound cards...

that's why i added the "real" qualification when i said, "it's the only REAL alternative to creative's..."

qsound is actually quite good, and actually does real 5.1...but for some reason nobody besides philip's (AFAIK) has implemented it...excessive royalties/licensing fees?
 
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