🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 18:18:49 -0400, "DRT" <darshant@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>This is true only if you are going to use the card's high-end features, i.e.
>its Digital I/O and low noise. If you are buying it because you want a PCI
>sound card with 3d acceleration and game support it is _very_ expensive,
>compared to other cards.
If you do not require these options, why go for a soundcard with them
anyway? Ofcourse, if you leave out the digital options there are
cheaper alternatives - that still doesn't however mean the SB Live is
an expensive card & they provide better quality.  $200 List (street is
lower)  is quite a bit less than what some soundcards costed (and
still cost) over here with a lot less functionality.  Note that not
everybody has the luxury to live with US prices, which are often quite
a bit lower for some products (not to mention all the rebate stuff and
competitions you get and we never see) than they are abroad.  With the
digital I/O the SBLive sure is pretty cheap compared to some of the
competitive products around (the Soundtrack 128 seeming to be the
nearest competitor at $199(main card)+99$(digital I/O) +
shippingcosts.  Even some of the higher pricerange products do not
have all the specs the SB Live boasts, not to mention most of those
lack a midiport (except for the Event Layla, with a list price at $999
- admittedly it also has more & balanced adc/dac) and a gameport.
Creative is now conveniently dumping AWE64's outside the US, since the
majority of people outside the US do not know any PCI soundcards yet
(atleast not from Creative: they are not on sale yet here in Europe -
though this will change late august/early september).