
Of course along with the cleaner sound and audiophile quality components comes an audiophile price tag, and the Sound Blaster ZxR can be found at . The 600 ohm amplifier and 124 dB signal-to-noise ratio should yield a cleaner sound output than most of the sound cards around. As mentioned earlier, it consists of two cards and is destined to be hooked to speakers, earphones, microphones and receivers and is considered to be audiophile quality. The Sound Blaster ZxR is the flagship offering from Creative Labs and was released among murmurs of driver instability, none of which we encountered. In reality, one would have to specify that this is actually a sound card system, as the Sound Blaster ZxR consists of a mother card, a daughter card and a front dock that lets you plug in speakers and headsets and switch between them without having to plug and unplug devices. Fast forward to today and the Sound Blaster ZxR is light years ahead of its ancient cousin, and by yesteryear standards, barely recognizable as a sound card. It consisted of a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and a small set of speakers for a mere $369.00, and the CD-ROM drive was 1x speed. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was “The Adlib Multimedia PC Upgrade Kit” and the “Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit”. Sound Blaster has been around since the inception of sound card technology.
