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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ Experience Next-Level Gaming Audio with Creative Sound Blaster Z SE Internal PCI-e Sound Card and DAC by Wiktor Sakowski แ Œ

Revainrating 5 out of 5

It's the best purchase I ever made, I will definitely do it again.

1 . The sound of this map is accurate and detailed , with a slight slant towards darkness . Dark color is when low-frequency timbres predominate. Not every speaker will fit this card, and it's not about the price. With a DC hi-fi kit (pioneer vsx320+ kit from pioneer es3tb) this card sang badly, disgustingly, and unpleasantly. The card gives out all the details and a very even sound, if it feels that somewhere the frequency response is not even, the sound deteriorates. In the DC set described above, frequencies from 7000 kg are overestimated, according to the cinema ideology of the pioneers. Didn't sleep. The paradox is that on simple svens, this card played better than on a hi-fi system. After some time, I sold the DC kit, I bought a stereo VCL, it got better. Cinematic res. introduced his distortions. And then I made the speakers myself for this card, a VCL (pioneer sx-20) and a room. The sound of my setup, for my taste, is not inferior or even superior to many systems listened to in console. Ru for 150,000 and more. So the card is demanding for good acoustics, not only in terms of price, but also in terms of many characteristics of sound delivery. Headphones 90% all fit her, from senkhs and haomi to sony burdocks. 2 The card will give better sound if it works on a PC that is not heavily loaded with power. On the i53570 + hd7950 system (gluttonous system), the sound was dirtier than later moved to celeron + gt720. + under load in games, when the hd7950 card plowed at full power, the noise increased, it was audible (albeit weakly) with an unarmed ear. So if you want to squeeze the maximum quality out of her DAC, you will have to make the computer a bit audiophile and not gaming. Energy efficient components, a good PSU, a minimum of fans, ssd, and there will be norms. By the way, gamers will not break off the same, the sound will still be better than the built-in. 3 I have owned the card since 2022, I have been working tfu tfu tfu, for 8 years already. I'm glad they still exist and are being produced. I'm thinking of getting a second one just in case. I'm afraid that later I won't find such a sound if it suddenly breaks. And the speakers are made for e feed.

Pros
  • Sound, software, reliability. The CS4398 DAC is the best DAC and its implementation on this card is the best I've heard. And I also heard expensive marans on this tac.
Cons
  • Influence of the power supply circuits of the motherboard and video card on the sound.

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