Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus SABRE32-class Hi-res 32-bit/384 kHz PCIe Gaming Sound Card and DAC with Dolby Digital and DTS, Xamp Discrete Headphone Bi-amp, Up to 122dB SNR, RGB Lighting System

Super easy to install and get up and running and fantastic sound quality compared to on board If you may need one you must get one! Fantastic card and great to see the Soundblaster cards still on the go after many years

This sound card mainly replaced the internal one integrated on the PC motherboard for listening to music, due to its very good technical parameters and most importantly it has metal sockets instead of plastic ones, which puts this product higher in the ranking.

Bought to replace a old Sound Blaster card and the sound is fantastic. The quality is superb through a 5.1 system and headphones. The only downside was the price

A much clearer better sound than onboard audio. I bought the AE-5 Plus Pure version. I highly recommend this soundcard👍

What a great soundcard! Using a 5.1 it gives a full audio experience. I was still using an Audigy2 until recently. Sound Blaster soundcards have been my favourite for 20 years!

Love this card. Sounds great and the RGB looks nice.

I have used creative products for a long time, so I assumed I was on safe grounds. This item however is so bad, that it is completely worthless and a waste of time and money. I warn any prospective buyer, save yourself a headache. You find you are constantly reinstalling software to try to make the thing work; it works poorly if it does, quality is terrible, the controlling software is next to useless. Overall, it's a very expensive mistake.

great sound quality

Snyggt ljudkort som jag gärna hade behållit eftersom jag har tidigare haft både Sound Blaster Z och ZxR som har presterat väldigt bra (när de funkade). Däremot har jag alltid haft problem med Creative mjukvara för ljudkort. Fruktansvärt buggigt. Jag köpte den vita versionen eftersom jag har en helt vit dator och hoppades på att deras nya produkter fungerar bättre. Problem 1: LED strips som jag fick med ljudkortet fungerar dåligt. Inte ens om jag kringgår ljudkortet och kopplar dem direkt till moderkortet så lyser bara några av dem (2st med ljudkortet, ca 10-15 med moderkortet). Problem 2: HUR kan mjukvaran vara så dålig?! Sound Blaster Command buggar som in i helvete. Så fort jag startar den så stängs ljudkortet av och vägrar fungera till jag startat om datorn. Kör jag Command igen så släcks ljudkortet. Kom igen Creative, fixa problemet någon gång? Både Z och ZxR strular som fan med tidigare mjukvara. Eftersom jag har en helt vit dator så finns det inte många val, får bli externt ljudkort, dock aldrig mer Creative ljudkort.

I purchased this card back in late 2022, and after over three years of daily use, I can say it is one of the best hardware pieces I have made for my PC. The most impressive thing about this card is its sound quality. I own several different pairs of headphones, ranging from standard gaming headsets to high impedance ones, and this card handles all of them effortlessly. The dedicated headphone amplifier makes everything sound incredibly crisp, balanced, and loud without any distortion. Setting it up with my home theater system was also a breeze. It connects perfectly to a Sony AV receiver I have, allowing me to switch between a high-end headphone experience and a full room filling speaker setup without any troubles. If you are looking for a significant upgrade over your motherboard's built in audio, this is it. It’s reliable, powerful, and makes everything from music to movies sound noticeably better. Highly recommended!

Runs like water, performs like a cake. Not perfect but still very good. Count me impressed. Definitely better than motherboard sound card.

I have usually run an internal Sound Card on my P.C.s, as they were ALWAYS better than the onboard Motherboard outputs, and today is no exception. In the past, I have stayed away from Creative due to their "bloated" drivers, but decided to try the AE-5 Plus on a new rig I built. Despite the 130 Mb download for the AE-5 drivers, (really?), the fundamentals of this Sound card are really good. I am sure the AE-7 and AE-9 sound better, but I am actually pretty impressed with the AE-5 plus. I streamed some High Fidelity FLAC videos off of YouTube, (Classical Music), and the sound resolution is very impressive. You can hear the individual instruments on the sound stage with great clarity, and better than some other sound cards I have used in the past. For my desktop, I am running these through the Klipsch 2.1 speakers, or my Sennheiser headphones. There is enough power output on the speaker output to power up my headphones, so I have not used the dedicated headphone output yet. In gaming, I am getting nice directional sound, and excellent clarity. There seems to be very little if any audible distortion. I know the current thinking is to have your DAC outside the computer, using a USB connection, but I am sticking with an internal PCIe sound card for now. No, it is not my Cambridge Audio amplifier good, but for my computer, the AE-5 plus seems pretty great thus far. I do not regret this purchase, even with bloated drivers. It is WAY better than any motherboard sound I have experienced, and I have had a few of those. No, I did not hook up the auxillary RGB lighting strips, but the lit AE-5 Plus on the Sound Card looks nice. You if really like to listen seriously to your music collection running WAV. files on your computer, or you like a more realistic sound in gaming, the Creative AE-5 plus is a good choice. Just make sure you have decent speakers to take advantage of the clarity. It has to work as a system. Glad I made this purchase.

No es mi primera tarjeta de sonido de la marca, y esta esta magnífica y excelente y el software mejora mucho el sonido.