I wonder will it work with PS3?

" Works with Everything" Well... maybe PS3 dont have support in Firmware level.

Price are TBA

Can We make it up ?.... its 100$ there you go

Raider0001:

Can We make it up ?.... its 100$ there you go

It goes for ~16000 yen in Japan (inc. tax) so roughly 125 €. I guess the EU price will range between 125 and 175 €.

There's already a couple of videos on youtube of it [youtube=4WO-AVA6epU]

Need to find out if it will work with PS3, as it's a great buy then.

funny how this market became so crowded and so good. but Creative sat on their hands as SFF builds took over the marketplace. maybe this can help them regain share.

are these actual cards? or usb sound cards? cause that is all hear about these days usb sound cards

"USB sound card" is wrong....lol It's not a card at all.

tsunami231:

are these actual cards? or usb sound cards? cause that is all hear about these days usb sound cards

It's an external USB dac/amp. It's not a card at all. It's also likely to be overpriced like everything Creative has been releasing the last couple years.

@superpoeper Thank you for your comment, seems like a great idea. I will take a look at which is cheaper in my place and get one. As I recently purchased PS3 and I love it, as you can use it to play PS1/2/3 games. The only issue in my case is bad low quality and low volume sound. This should fully fix it. Just one Question - MixAmp™ Pro TR, can it be used with any Headset or only Astro? Nevermind, didn't read you well, I see you use it with a different headset. Well, seems like an instant buy for me.

superpoeper:

It works with any headset with an impedance lower or equal to 60 ohm. I have more than 25 headphones and they all work but my 250 and 100 ohm headsets sound horrible because the amp is in the mixamp pro tr is not strong enough. Any good quality headphone that is comfortable is usable it just needs a 3.5mm jack anb be 60 ohm or lower. The sony mdr-1a that i have sounds best for me and a modified phillips shp-2000 also sounds great for its price (if you need some help picking a good headset look up reviews of ones you like to use on headfi.org, key points being good open soundstage, and the impedance...) I paid 120€ for mixamp without headphone and 100€ for sony mdr-1a Hope i'm helping...

I have several headsets at home, so that's not a problem. It should work just fine with my Audio-Technica as well. Thank you for clarifying. And yes this is very handy, as the sound was the only problem for me with PS3. Just ordered Astro Mixamp Pro TR, planning to use it with PS3 and down the road, in future, I plan to buy PS4 when it goes out of production. It should work perfectly with it as well. Thanks again!

sykozis:

"USB sound card" is wrong....lol It's not a card at all. It's an external USB dac/amp. It's not a card at all. It's also likely to be overpriced like everything Creative has been releasing the last couple years.

Yeah the prices suck but they're not unusual for Creative. I heard it'll be around 150 USD? Which is around $190 CAD so I suspect it'll be $200 here. That's cheaper than their sound cards ever were. My ZxR was $250 on release, which I think was around the time I bought it. It never got a price reduction. I never even saw it on sale either. If my memory isn't completely screwed, around that time the USD and CAD were around the same. That's a $100 USD price reduction from their past bullshit, at least for prices here. I'd actually consider buying this thing to escape from the garbage drivers of the ZxR and have something external to use... it'd also be nice freeing up that space in my case that otherwise cockblocks a bunch of ports. The sound card has to be used in the furthest port or the 16x slot functions at 8x. The drivers are so buggy with this motherboard (and apparently MSI, and newer Gigabyte boards) that literally half the time or more it's detected as a Recon 3D card, or something else entirely, and won't function. As a bonus Windows constantly tries to force update it to the wrong drivers (Recon 3D), breaking all functionality, and will not let me see other updates without installing that first. No method I've found actually tells Windows to fuck off and leave my drivers alone. But I think I'll skip this unless I find it on sale or go more insane or something, I want to cut out Creative's drivers from the equation entirely.

Neo Cyrus:

Yeah the prices suck but they're not unusual for Creative. I heard it'll be around 150 USD? Which is around $190 CAD so I suspect it'll be $200 here. That's cheaper than their sound cards ever were. My ZxR was $250 on release, which I think was around the time I bought it. It never got a price reduction. I never even saw it on sale either. If my memory isn't completely screwed, around that time the USD and CAD were around the same. That's a $100 USD price reduction from their past bullshit, at least for prices here. I'd actually consider buying this thing to escape from the garbage drivers of the ZxR and have something external to use... it'd also be nice freeing up that space in my case that otherwise cockblocks a bunch of ports. The sound card has to be used in the furthest port or the 16x slot functions at 8x. The drivers are so buggy with this motherboard (and apparently MSI, and newer Gigabyte boards) that literally half the time or more it's detected as a Recon 3D card, or something else entirely, and won't function. As a bonus Windows constantly tries to force update it to the wrong drivers (Recon 3D), breaking all functionality, and will not let me see other updates without installing that first. No method I've found actually tells Windows to frack off and leave my drivers alone. But I think I'll skip this unless I find it on sale or go more insane or something, I want to cut out Creative's drivers from the equation entirely.

I've had a lot of sound blaster cards and never had any issues with the drivers.

I got an email today its £130 https://i.imgur.com/JduyIFQ.png

Paulo Narciso:

I'm more interested in the super-xfi. https://us.creative.com/sxfi/

Ooooh goes well with Creative ZiiLabs StemCell SoC - aka in the garbage.

goat1:

I've had a lot of sound blaster cards and never had any issues with the drivers.

I had issues with drivers on my X-Fi XtremeAudio, my X-Fi Go! and my X-Fi Titanium HD. There was an issue with my SB-Z, but reinstalling the driver fixed it.

I'd rather have an internal card, and thankfully Creative have got their Sound BlasterX AE-5 Pure Edition on sale for the exact same price.

Personally, I'd rather have an external. Just not at the prices they seem to go for these days....

sykozis:

I had issues with drivers on my X-Fi XtremeAudio, my X-Fi Go! and my X-Fi Titanium HD. There was an issue with my SB-Z, but reinstalling the driver fixed it.

My X-Fi Platinum and X-Fi Fatality were both riddled with driver issues across multiple operating systems and PCs. My SBZ has been a lot better, but it has seen a couple hiccups too over the years.

Most of my issues in regards to my SB-Z usually come after a major update. Those issues have all been resolved by reinstalling the driver. If my SB-Z ever dies though, it'll be replaced by my FiiO K1...which is an external USB dac/amp. After the issues with the X-Fi Go!, it would be really hard for Creative to convince me to buy another USB audio solution from them.