Price Paid:  $0.00 from newegg.com

Summary:
Excellent card for money. Brings out lots of details, does wonders to speakers that tend to sound flat from other sources. Bright Mid-Range, if not too bright. Front channel output is awesome for driving headphones loud! Sounds smoother in treble range, but a bit laid back and limited compared to crisp sound of SB Live!

Strengths:
Improved Headroom in High Frequency range over previous SB Live!
Stong Front Channel Outputs

Weaknesses:
Harsh High-Mid Range / Treble could be sharper
EQ's help a lot, but are not entirely usefull since sound is colored by the card
Rear and Other outputs have lower volume levels
I'm sure all this is fixed in SB Audigy2

Similar Products Used:
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
SB Live! Value

Price Paid:  $100.00 from CompUsa

Summary:
awsome card! you can really tell the difference between this card and the older Live! series.
much higher quality sound than any other video card available. definetly worth the extra cash if you love music and want a kickass computer music system.

Summary:
Wow!!! This sound card has amazing sound.It has the new eax hd, even though no game supports it yet, the card sounds amazing.I play all sorts of games like Return to castle wolfenstein,May payne,medal of honor - allied assualt, and many other games.Every game i play sounds amazing and adds to the whole gaming expierence.I also have a dvd rom and the sound is amazing.

Summary:
I recently upgraded my computer to an Athlon XP 1700+ system. I decided to go ahead and upgrade my Soundblaster Live! to the new Soundblaster Audigy MP3.