Creative Sound Blaster Z Series

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  1. Clad in brilliant red shielding and featuring glowing LED lighting that will be the highlight of any power gaming rig, Sound Blaster Zx is the bad boy of the Sound Blaster Z-Series ultra-high-performance sound cards. With an impressive 116dB SNR and bursting with high-grade hardware and software features, this complete home entertainment audio system is hard to beat.
  2. The Creative Sound Blaster Z Sound card is part of the new flagship series of Sound Blaster and features the multi-core Sound Core3D audio processor and beamforming microphone. There are three.
  3. Find the right Sound Blaster that’s best for you with our Buy Guide. From internal PCI-e cards to USB audio and gaming DACs, and audio adapters, give your audio the quality it deserves because details do matter. Read more about the Sound Blaster story.
  4. Creative Sound Blaster Z - sound card Series Specs & Prices. Model Creative Sound Blaster Z - sound card. Creative Sound Blaster Z - sound card 70SB150000000 $133.42. Creative Sound Blaster Z.
Creative sound blaster z series control panel

Introduction

The Sound Blaster Z is currently available on Amazon for $108.30, which puts it well in the mid range in terms of dedicated sound cards. This has traditionally been Creative’s sweet spot for.


We would like to thank OverClockers UK for kindly supplying the review sample!

Creative’s newest sound card is dubbed the Sound Blaster Z. The sound card is available in the PCI Express x1 format and will run off bus power, which is great for the modding crowd and those wanting to integrate this 5.1 capable sound card into a small form-factor PC. The Sound Blaster Z is feature rich and comes with a brand-new gadget that is quite interesting to anyone using a pair of proper headphones for gaming. Creative opted to include a beam-forming microphone that should have very good noise-cancellation properties and vastly superior sound quality over normal desktop and clip-on microphones.
Coming in at just under $100, the Sound Blaster Z is the smallest and cheapest of the new generation of sound cards from Creative. The card has no audiophile features, like the ability to swap op-amps. Instead, you get a smart sound card that looks flashy, comes in a convenient form factor, and includes a microphone of good quality.
Sound Blaster Z series sound cards feature the new Sound Core 3D-processor from Creative: a quad-core processor for some offloading from the primary CPU.

Specifications

Output Level:

Front Channel Out: 2Vrms
Headphone (33 ohms): 1.3Vrms
Headphone (600 ohms): 2Vrms

Maximum DAC Resolution:

Front Channel Out : 24-bit, 192kHz
Headphone (33 ohms): 24-bit, 96kHz
Headphone (600 ohms): 24-bit, 96kHz
SNR (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Wgt), @ 24-bit, 96kHz
Front Channel Out : 116dB
Headphone (33 ohms): >105dB
Headphone (600 ohms): >105dB
Frequency Response @ 96kHz

Creative Sound Blaster Z-series Audio Cards

Front Channel Out : 10Hz to 45kHz
Rear Channel Out : 15Hz to 45kHz
Center Out : 10Hz to 45kHz
Headphone (33 ohms): 10Hz to 45kHz
Frequency Response @ 192kHz(Stereo only) Creative Sound Blaster Z Series
Front Channel Out : 10Hz to 88kHz

Speaker Support:

Supported Output: Stereo/2.1 Speakers/5.1 Speakers, Headphones

Connectivity:

Headphone 1 x Amplified 1/8' mini jack
Speaker Out: 3 x 1/8' mini jacks
Optical Out: TOSLINK

Creative Sound Blaster Z-series Software Pack For Windows 10

Optical In: TOSLINK
Line In / Microphone In: Shared 1/8' mini jack