Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Review by ExtremeTech

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA card provides laptop and notebook computer with support of THX certified 24-bit ADVANCED HD audio quality playback with incredible 104dB SNR, allowing for audiophile quality playback with support for DVD-Audio at up to 24-bit/192kHz, Windows Media 9: 24-bit multi-channel audio format, encompassing 7.1 surround sound for Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES supported DVD movies, any DirectSound3D games and CMSS 3D virtualized 7.1 stereo music. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Notebook also features hardware accelerated EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD.


ExtremeTech reviewed Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook sound card in PCMCIA format card, and approved the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook with the rating of 9 out of possible 10. It concluded that Creative’s Sound Blaster line offers the most feature-complete sound cards in the business, and the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook is a logical progression for the Audigy 2 family. It brings the entire feature set to laptop gamers and audio enthusiasts, and from our testing, it’s a solid implementation that will spruce up any laptop audio sub-system. It also brings EAX 4.0, DTS, Dolby Digital, THX, and DVD-Audio to the laptop market–something no other mobile audio solution has done. At $129, the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook is pretty easy on the wallet, too.

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