Warm:Onvia has both the new Sound Blaster Live ! MP3 & X-Gamer 5.1 for $86.35

[john_doe]

I just ordered the x-gamer 5.1 myself.

 

[Siamskunk]

John_doe, that's cool.
I'm looking for one of these 5.1 card. C4sure has it for something like 484.99 plus s/h
this can save me some $
thanks

 

[wjones]

Siamskunk, you missed your 'Shift' key when you type '4'

 

[Siamskunk]

thanks, just got too excited..........that would make it more interesting, wouldn't it?


btw, John......I couldn't find any live 5.1 at Onvia page. any link? thanks

 

[tran1981]

what is the different between regular one and 5.1? Does the platinum one comes with live drive 1 or live drive 2?

 

[ElDiablo]

Dolby Digital decoding on the chip is the big difference.

 

[tran1981]

what if i already have the dolby digital reciever? can i benefit from 5.1? What about dts? I know some dvd are dts, does this do dts?

 

[emaij]

What is it?

 

[Madcowz]

it's not real dolby digital decoding... it's emulated

and no you will not benefit if you have the original live b/c it has passthrough digital sound that will get decoded by your dolby digital receiver all the same

 

[CarpeDeo]

Just wondering- is the 25 off 100 coupon still working at onvia? Then you can add something to bring it just over 100 and take off 25.

 

[ShyambaJuice]

the 5.1 is dolby certified but it also has a lot more outputs such as the subwoofer output. It sounds like a really nice card but it also sounds like SB just wanted to get all the current live users to shell out more cash for a "newer, better" card.

 

[moolman]

They also have the platinum 5.1, I ordered the x-gamer and mp3 for my brother and I and they got here in one day. Its the exact same card as the old x-gamer and mp3, it even says just soundblaster live on the card, just the model number on it is different to differentiate it from the old ones. Uses the same drivers, I guess the only use for the 5.1 is if you have 5 speakers without a dolby decoder, then it would come in handy. Like the new DTT2200 speaker they sell without the dolby deocoder.

Alex

 

[dcdomain]

Just received my Soundblaster Live! Platinum 5.1 today from Computers4sure.

Does anyone know where I an order an Optical Toslink cable? I have the cable with two round ends for CD to MD, but I need one with a round end and a square end or an adapter so I can connect my MD to the Live!Drive. I know Hoontech.com sells one, but the shipping is nuts since they ship it from Korea.

I had a hell of a time figuring out what exactly was in the box on Creative's site. So to clear things up:

Live!Drive IR has the following:
S/PDIF IN
S/PDIF OUT
Optical S/PDIF IN
Optical S/PDIF OUT
RCA Auxiliary in
Infra-red receiver (for the included remote)
Headphone out with volume adjuster
Line in/Mic in with volume adjuster
Midi IN
Midi OUT

The package contained the following:
Soundblaster Live! Platinum PCI card
Live!Drive IR
Wireless remote with batteries
Hands free microphone
Digital CD Audio cable
Analog CD Audio cable
Power supply splitter cable
3.5mm to 1/4" adapter jack
Screws for Live!Drive IR installation
Mini MIDI DIN to Standard MIDI DIN adapter cables (x2)
Connection cable to the Live! card

Applications:
Creative Software Pack
Steinberg's Cubasis VST, Wavelab Lite and ReCycle Lite
Mixman Technologies Mixman Studio
Pixaround's PixMaker and PixScreen (creative edition)
Vorton Technologies' Kool Karaoke
Mindmaker's Prody Parrot
Mindmaker's Game Commander SE

Games:
MDK2
Deus Ex
Theif II: the Metal Age
Unreal Tournament

 

[ogn]

get the feeling that creative labs just doesn't have any where to go after the live card?

 

[elSmoko]

they have plenty of places to go.. with nvidia actively trying to take over the world, notably with inroads to the mobo market and the audio sector (via the engineers they sniped from aureal's dying corpse to create the x-box audio), creative is going to be feeling their pinch. they are getting so corpulent and bloated, who knows what'll happen next. I could see them trying to become a third party cpu provider.. or maybe gobbling up something like transmeta when the ipo comes out? who knows.. the only thing that is for sure, is that nvidia will have a place in your computer

- ElSmoko