Creative Sound Blaster Cards Lose THX Logo

Creative had a really tight partnership with THX until a while ago, and probably still maintains a collaboration.

It's no longer essential though, because Creative has its own audio software now: SBX Pro Studio. It is this software that now ships with the Sound Blaster Recon3D sound cards. Speaking of which, a new card collection is out: Sound Blaster Z series. And somewhere in limbo between Sound Blaster Recon3D and Sound Blaster Z rests the Sound Blaster Recon3D r2. It's essentially the Recon3D but with the new software.

That means it has a Sound Core3D native-PCIe chipset, Cirrus Logic-made DAC, 5.1-channel output, 24-bit resolution, 102 dBA SNR, a dedicated 600 Ω headphones amplifier, 96 kHz sample rates, and OpenAL hardware-accelerated audio API support. It also gets EAX 5.0 Advanced HD and compatibility with Windows 8.

Creative Sound Blaster card
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