Sound Blaster MP3+ USB Review, At xbitlabs Options

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Xbitlabs has gotten ahold of the Creative MP3+ External USB solution, measured some of it's characteristics with SpectraLab and disassembled it.

To summarize: the ~$60 solution uses a Creative CA-0181-QAT processor with an ADI1885 CODEC and Philips TDA1308 chips as opamps, makes about an 80dB SNR, and is apparently strictly stereo (though with full-sized RCA jacks).

Though it supports up to 60 DS3D streams, it appears to be significantly less desirable for 3DAudio than Creative's newer internal cards, as well as being rather noisy and susceptible to EMI.

The review is here.

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Would be interesting to see a comparison to Griffin's PowerWave.

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The powerwave looks a bit more versatile with it's integrated amp, though it would be interesting to compare (measured) specs certainly.
It's not really the fairest comparison since the MP3+ is quite a bit cheaper, and the Extigy is only slightly more than the Griffin.
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This post has been edited by Audible!: Nov 2 2003, 07:31

[DoomzDayz]

Xbitlabs has gotten ahold of the Creative MP3+ External USB solution, measured some of it's characteristics with SpectraLab and disassembled it.

To summarize: the ~$60 solution uses a Creative CA-0181-QAT processor with an ADI1885 CODEC and Philips TDA1308 chips as opamps, makes about an 80dB SNR, and is apparently strictly stereo (though with full-sized RCA jacks).

Though it supports up to 60 DS3D streams, it appears to be significantly less desirable for 3DAudio than Creative's newer internal cards, as well as being rather noisy and susceptible to EMI.

The review is here.

i got one of these for very cheap and am wondering if it resamples to 48000 like most other creative cards? If so, I'm going to use otachan's ultra resampler and not let anything else touch it using ASIO and not even bothering to install any drivers.

This post has been edited by DoomzDayz: Sep 9 2008, 23:48

[[JAZ]]

If you look at the second page of that review, it touts the USB MP3+ (which is the lower-end one) as having:

Audio quality/bit Depth : 16bit / 44kHz
DACs : 16bit / 48kHz

I believe that one is basically, like a soundblaster Live 2.0 in an usb enclosure. (So the answer is yes, it resamples)

(Extigy was the Audigy couterpart)

Btw, if you need drivers, here's the driver's page:

http://support.creative.com/Products/Produ...tebook+Products