Rating: 
Summary: An Exceptional Card for Exceptional People
Review: 1 word, Wow. This is the first Turtle Beach Card I've owned since my very first PnP PCI Daytona. All I can say is they've imporved their cards drastically, and this is one great product. It completely annihalates my SB Live! and shows my monster mx300 some new tricks. I would highly recommend this card to anyone interested in high fidelity audio. To respond to other reviewers, I've had problems with WinAMP 3 with ALL of my soundcards, Dayonta PCI, SB Live, Santa Cruz, mx300, etc, at first. Winamp 3 has some weird default settings that make the sound output sound crackly and horrible. I would recommend using winamp 2.xx to compare sound fidelity. Imho.
Rating:
Summary: Nice and easy
Review: After spending a half day with another 5.1 card that just would'nt work right, I traded it for the Santa Cruz and installed this baby in 5 minutes without a hitch. Great sound and the control panel is really intuitive and easy to use. Should have saved myself the trouble and bought the Santa Cruz first.
Rating: 
Summary: sounds good to me
Review: AWSUME!!its easy to connect and get running...no problems with reconizing different speekers. The only problem it that it cant take 5 speakers it and only take 4 with 1 plug for front speekers and 1 for back
Rating:
Summary: Rocks You!!
Review: Best one I have ever seen. The ouput is unbelievable.
What I liked is 4.1/6.1 sound- versa jack- sound option.
This will enable one to connect either a headphone or a Digital source. If you are really interested in buying a sound card, this the one I would recommend.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding sound card at a better price.
Review: Bought this during upgrade to Windows XP. What a great card. Simple to install and easy to use. Connected to a 400 watt 4.1 speaker system and the quality is amazing. Great software bundle included and web support is very good. Get one!
Rating:
Summary: Killer Card!
Review: Don't know what the previous reviewer did wrong, but MY copy of Wizardry8, JK2, Morrowind, DOC, Age Of Empires2, Neverwinter Nights, ....the list goes on (i have nearly all of em), Serious Sam2, UT, Urban Terror- Q3, Aliens Vs. Predators2....get the picture, they all run flawlessly with this card, the person below has a "conflict"- perhaps too many PCI Cards, or a bad driver, or an incorrectly configured device. For owners of Via chipsets this card is a godsend (audigy imcompatibility with "some"- of the Via mobos). No kiddin...I have ALL the titles that the below poster has and about 55 more- no problems with SC Turtle beach. Perhaps you "down below" are not very techically adept- probably something very simple. ... By the way---the best speakers in the world are the Klipch Pro Media's (5.1)...and...they are NOT digital.....dude...they are ANALOG. Nuff said. Peace. Get the Turtle Beach Santa Cruise for gaming!
Rating:
Summary: This ROCKS!
Review: Ease of installation = 5
Sound quality = 5
User interface = 5
Bells & Whistles = 5
This card is worth every penny you pay ... and puts SoundBlaster cards to shame. They could take a lesson.
Rock On!
Rating: 
Summary: Gamers Beware
Review: First off I have never had any problems with this sound card outside of gaming. But when playing games (GTA 3, Neverwinter Nights, Wizardry 8, Jedi Knight 2, etc.) the sound card often cuts out for several seconds and the audio quality can be quite scratchy at times. The technical support for this issue suggests turning off the hardware acceleration for games as a possible fix for the above problems. Not only does this not fix the problems, games are when you most need your sound card to be processing audio, not your CPU. I can say with certainty that it was my Santa Cruz sound card that was causing my game related audio problems because I now use a Sound Blaster Audigy and it has none previously mentioned problems. Also worth mentioning is the documentation states that it supports 5.1 surround sound. This is true but it does not support DIGITAL 5.1 surround, it only supports digital 4.1 surround sound. If you're going to play games, don't buy this card. If you're not going to play games this card is just fine.
Rating:
Summary: Santa Cruz
Review: Got this to replace the Creative Value Live! card on an XP system to see if strings would stop sounding like finger nails scraping a black board and it worked! The software interface is intellegent compared to Creatives kiddy junk and it's very easy to use. The Santa Cruz also doesn't distort piano notes or voice. The bundled software is kind of deceptive, most of it being demos, and the lite editions are truly "light" making them fairly useless if you want to use Midi. Overall I would still chose Turtle Beach over Creative being lower cost, better performance, easy to use and setup, and designed for people who are older than 12.
Rating:
Summary: Nice but pay attention to the install instructions.
Review: Great card! Good sound and Im still messing with the software that came with it so can't tell you what I think about that yet but Im betting its fine. Pay attention to the install instructions and make sure you turn off any built in onboard gameport settings you current system might have. DO NOT ALLOW AUTO DETECT TO INSTALL DRIVERS FOR THIS CARD. (winxp) It is worth the effort to install and worth the money. Good buy I would say and as always Amazon.com got it to me safe and sound.
|
