[peterpan188]

My laptop's headphone jack just got a pin snapped off, not that I can't solder a new jack in, but it just a good reason to upgrade from onboard sound chip

. At newegg, SB notebook has a deal for $89.99 with $20 rebate, where everywhere else except eBay sells Indigo IO for $150. Is the difference in SQ worth double the price? How is the drivers, applications quality comparing those 2?

Cheers,
Peter

 

[peterpan188]

Bump!

Can anyone point me a direction for comparsion and review?

Cheers,
Peter

 

[Slogra]

Of course the Echo Indigo is a whole lot better than Sound Blaster cards (if that is what you mean by SB). Only you can decide if it is worth twice your money.

Google if you want some reviews. I found this for example:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1649891,00.asp

 

[Norbert]

Ok, I've listened to both. At first I bought the SB card and was tremendously disappointed. The sound of the music improved (obviously) over the stock soundcard but there were annoying clicks that I could not eliminate no matter what I tried. I returned it after 3 days. Then I went to the Echo I/O and was very pleased. The sound was more clear, crisp, everything improved over the SB and no annoying clicks or jitter. For me it was well worth the investment and I feel no need to upgrade at all.

 

[w33bo]

check out the indigo DJ, it has two outputs instead of one output and one input (same price though)

 

[shuy]

is it just me, or is there a dearth of 2nd hand indigo dj cards on ebay? or am i searching wrong?

 

[applegd]

I just bought SB Audigy2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA card from Buy.com($55 after rebate) last week, but I only use its SPDIF out(@24Bits/96K Hz) to transmit my itune music from laptop to my MicroDAC-->HR MOH-->HD650.

This PCMCIA card has 3 Hardware versions,make sure you get latest one(Mfg Part#: 70SB053000012), so you will not see some of annoying problems as others ....

Whether to buy SB Audigy2 Notebook(SB) or Indigo IO(IIO) depends on what you need. I think the strength of SB is Digital Signal Processing, NOT its analog (headphone) output.