Sound Blaster Z Gaming Pack
High Performance PCIe Gaming System
Features
Sound Blaster Z
Sound Blaster Z, part of the ultra high-performance Z-Series of Sound Blaster sound cards, is an ideal all-round solution for your PC gaming and entertainment needs. It comes complete with the Sound Blaster Beamforming Microphone for crystal clear voice communication.
116dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio
A signal to noise ratio or SNR of 116dB means your audio will be more than 99.99% pristine, which is over 35.4 times better than motherboard audio.
Pristine audio recordings with ultra low latency
Enjoy reduced latency with Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) support with the Sound Blaster Z. Hear your audio recordings come to life!
24-bit / 192kHz audio output
Stereo Direct lets you listen to your music pure and unprocessed at the amazing bit rate of 24-bit 192 kHz.
Advanced entertainment audio
Experience like never before the power of Sound Blaster audio today! With Sound Blaster Z's gold-plated connectors, speaker optimization technology and digital content encoding capability, you can be assured of only the best digital audio possible.
SBX Pro Studio™ technologies
SBX Pro Studio™ sound technologies create unprecedented levels of audio realism, including stunning 3D surround effects for your speakers and headsets.
Crystal clear communication
In gaming, if you're not communicating, you're not winning. Experience crystal clear communication with your teammates with the CrystalVoice™ suite of technologies that removes echoes, ambient noises and picks up your voice from within a zone (Voice Focus). It also maintains your voice level even if you are near or further away from the microphone.
Sound Blaster Beamforming Microphone
When used with CrystalVoice Focus, the bundled beamforming microphone creates an acoustic zone and suppresses noise outside it, enabling you to be heard with amazing clarity.
Sound Core3D audio processor
The multi-core Sound Core3D™ audio processor is designed to offload SBX Pro Studio and CrystalVoice effects processing from your primary CPU, improving your overall PC performance, resulting in drastically superior audio and voice quality.
High fidelity multi-channel surround
Connect to your home theatre system through a single digital cable and enjoy cinematic DVD movies by transforming any stereo or multi-channel streams into high fidelity immersive surround sound.
Never unplug your headphones again
With the Sound Blaster Z-series Control Panel, just toggle between your headphone and speaker system with a flip of a switch.
Inspire T6300
5.1 Surround Speakers
5.1 surround speaker system for music, movies or games. Connect it to your computer for the most compelling audio experience.
Big sound from a compact system
To increase loudness and bass, speakers generally require fairly long and wide port tubes. The Inspire T6300 features the Creative DSE design, which enables the speakers to achieve louder and deeper playback even when constrained to a compact housing. This is made possible by separating the port tube into two separate slots and reconstructing them to fit into a tight enclosure.
Powerful subwoofer with adjustable bass
Everyone likes their bass in a different way - some like explosive thumps, others prefer it light. Simply adjust the bass level of the powerful, down-firing ported subwoofer just the way you like it!
Easy access to controls
The power and volume control are integrated into one independent wired remote control for your convenience and ease of use.
REVIEWS
Custom PC Review
In games, the Sound Blaster Z was able to provide clear and crisp sounding audio to a variety of different games tested. Audio imaging was very good, which helped when trying to find the location of different enemies.
Certified Awesome Award; Gold
Vortez
Music was much more enjoyable when using a high fidelity sound card, each sound, is reproduced accurately and concisely allowing for audible differentiation of instrumental timbre.
Silver Award
AVForums
In terms of music, hooking up the Soundblaster Z to my Onkyo amp and B&W speakers produced a deep and clear soundstage that was definitely step up on the audio that I usually pump through an Nvidia HDMI connection to the same device.
Recommended Award
Customer Reviews
K. Perkins
Impressed!...sound reproduction is way better than on-board
T. Ürmös
Best of the best, soundblaster is still going strong.
J. Kevin
The sound card itself is worth buying. It requires some time to set up correctly, but then it just works flawlessly. I've had some problems with Flash Player's sounds, but those have been mystically fixed (probably by re-setting the sampling frequency to 96kHz and bit depth to 24-bit). There's a very little fault, though: When Windows 7 starts up, the startup sound just breaks. I'm using an SSD drive, so it may be too fast for the driver to load. The software's 'Advanced Features' tab should contain boxes for sampling frequency and bit depth, and what I really miss is the software's resizability. The 'Equalizer' tab's DropDown list should be editable by hand, and it should allow at least 64 characters, because I often create profiles optimized for specific applications _and_ sound devices: for example, I'm not able to write 'Pioneer Steez Dubstep (Flash Player)'. The support and the delivery speed (free - 4 days) was just great, it deserves more than just 5 stars!
A Closer Look
Package Contents
- Sound Blaster Z
- Sound Blaster Z sound card
- Sound Blaster Beamforming Microphone
- Quick Start leaflet
- Installation CD containing:
- Drivers for Windows®
- Creative software suite
- User's Guide
- Inspire T6300
- 2 large satellite speakers (Front satellites)
- 3 medium satellite speakers (Rear and center satellites)
- 1 subwoofer
- 1 Warranty and Technical Support booklet
- 1 Quick Start guide
California Residents
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
To meet the requirements of Proposition 65, it is our responsibility to notify consumers in the State of California that they can be exposed to chemicals that are known to cause cancer and/or reproductive toxicity. It does not mean that the product is in violation of any product-safety standards or requirements.
