Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Sound Card
by TURTLE BEACH SYSTEMS
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Customer Review: An Exceptional Card for Exceptional People
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Customer Review: Great and Great Value
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great sound card and a great value to boot. Sure, you can pay two to four times as much for some other brands (that used to be good, but are now just marketing). But, why?
My Ensoniq got fried by some errant hardware. I bought a sound card that was half the price of this one. It sounded awful. I could not use it for my editing.
I did some searching and got the Santa Cruz. I am very happy -- and I saved a lot of money! The best things are the very low noise floor (necessary for editing) and the incredible seperation (also helpful for editing).
I will definitely be recommending this card to my friends.
Customer Review: Santa Cruz
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Customer Review: The sound card to buy if you want great audio!
Summary: 5 Stars
This card is one of the best values out there. It has great sound, uses less resources than any Creative product (I also unfortunately have a Soundblaster Live!5.1), has better software packaged with it, is much less expensive to buy than any of the Creative cards, and is really easy to set up. I can't say enough good things about this card. The sound is great on dvd movies with Dolby Digital sound and a 5.1 sound system. The drivers are very stable and work great on both Windows 2000 Professional and XP Pro. Save your money and get a great value in a product. Buy this card!Customer Review: This product is not what is advertised on the box.
Summary: 1 Stars
This product is not what is advertised on the box. Apparently, in the past, this was a retail version product. Now, the software is unavailable, the user guide is not included, and they offer no support for this product. A phone call to the company left me even more confused when they said the ones being sold now are OEM versions of the card that were packaged in a new retail version box. Don't expect any help in installing the card, using the features, or getting any of the cool software advertised on the box, it's not going to happen.