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We get a headphone jack, microphone jack, as well as additional line out jacks for up to a 5.1 channel sound system. Here’s a look at the connectors on the Sound Blaster Z. As usual, it’s a PCIe 1x card, so you’ll want to have a free PCIe 1x, 4x, 8x or 16x slot available. The entire card is wrapped in a metallic cover, which acts as an EMI shield to reduce electrical interference from the rest of the system. Looks pretty much like a revamped version of the Recon 3D Fatal1ty with a a couple tweaks and a different color scheme. Here’s a first look at the Sound Blaster Z itself. It also looks quite nice as it has a small plastic piece that allows it to sit right on top of your monitor. It’s actually a decent microphone and it works very well with the soundcard.

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Although the Sound Blaster Z is the entry level Z series soundcard, Creative has also included what they call a “Beamforming” microphone.

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Included in the packaging, we get the usual documentation along with a driver disk.

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We also get a number of features plastered over the front such as SBX Pro Studio, integrated headphone amp, Sound Core 3D, 116dB SNR, etc. It’s pretty reminiscent of Sound Blaster packaging from the past with the exception of a new color scheme. Here’s a look at the packaging for the Sound Blaster Z. SNR (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Wgt), 24-bit, 96kHz Is Creative’s latest and greatest worth the money? Let’s find out! While the Sound Blaster Z will be available for purchase starting now, Creative also has the Sound Blaster ZX and the Sound Blaster ZXR coming, both of which I’m told should be available for purchase in Q1 2013.ĭespite the Sound Blaster Z being the entry level Sound Blaster Z series soundcard, the Sound Blaster Z is still a very high end product with features such as a SNR of 116dB, a 600 ohm headphone amp, 24 bit resolution, 192kHz sample rate, and of course, Creative’s Sound Core 3D audio processor. Today we’ll be reviewing the Sound Blaster Z, which is the entry level soundcard in the Sound Blaster Z series of soundcards. It’s only been about a year since we reviewed Creative’s Sound Blaster Recon 3D soundcard and they’re back again with a new line of products, the Sound Blaster Z series.

I hope this helps anyone else trying out the ca0132 Sound Blaster soundcards.A New Standard If the input is quiet, select 'Mic1-Boost' and click your 'Insert' key to enable mic boost. Do the same with 'AMic1/DMic Auto Detect'.Ĩ. Select the 'AMic1/DMic' and click your 'Insert' key to enable it. Use the left and right arrows to navigate the selections and use 'Insert' key to enable/disable selectionsħ. The fix for 64bit kernels on Linux Mint with Kernels pre 3.16?Īnd that should get it to work. and then before the 'END' at the bottom of the rc.local file? add these two lines: The fix for 64bit kernels on Linux Mint with Kernels post 3.16?ģ. In 64bit kernels (tested up to 3.16.2 kernel) the sound and microphone will fail to work unless you go into 'alsamixer' and turn on 'AMic1/DMic' and 'Mic1-Boost'. Some people have said using 'modprobe snd-hda-intel model=generic' gets the front ports to work. and then you get no sound or static.įront audio and front mic ports do not work period.

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Where-as on 64bit? It will give 'ca0132 DOWNLOAD FAILED!!! DSP IS NOT RUNNING.'. The microphone input never worked for me first try until I went into 'aslamixer' and turn on 'AMic1/DMic' and 'Mic1-Boost'. Works perfectly fine with a 32bit Kernel (tested from 3.7 up to 3.16.2 kernels) where it will say 'ca0132 DOWNLOAD OK :-) DSP IS LOADED.' it also includes the 'FATAL1TY' and 'Professional' editions of both since they're the same base Digital Sound Processors that run the cards. NOTE! ca0132 refers to BOTH the Sound Blaster Recon 3D and the Sound Blaster Z series of soundcards.