Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX External USB or PCMCIA version

I have the 8600 and the PCMCIA version. It works very well indeed and you can run from the internal battery as well.

There are some popping issues with DVD-Audio disks and on some rare occasions in games, however these are being looked into by Creative and overall the card is fantastic.

Thanks ya I get some popping with stock Sig sound card too kind of odd maybe something else then is the culprit effecting the sound cards.

                                                                       Lonny 

I have the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCcard installed into my Inspiron 8200.

The sound is great but whenever I burn CDs using my external Firewire burner, I have to remove the Audigy card. Otherwise there is some kind of SCSI interface error and I get coasters. I also have an external Firewire hard drive for backups and as yet, I have not seen an error. However, I will be removing the Audigy card prior to using it from this point forward.

Fluke,

Creative does state that no power adapter is needed for their usb Live! card, but I couldn't find a similar claim for their Audigy2NX. If you go to this page near the bottom is a pic of the rear of the unit and there seems to be a connection for a wall wart on the far right of the back panel.

audigy2nx
(http://www.soundblaster.com/products/Audigy2NX/welcome.asp)

An interesting fact is that their discontinued Mp3+ card which normally did not require a power adapter, would not work on the 8600 or the XPS unless it was plugged into a powered usb port. We all thought the usb ports were underpowered but I finally found a Soundblaster faq that claimed the ports were 'timing out' before the cards could get powered up. Don't know if they got that ironed out with usb Live! or not.

Jim

Right on just what I was looking! Thanks