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    Sound opinions

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dock44, Jan 9, 2005.

  1. dock44

    dock44 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My 9200 will be arriving on Wed. I have a nice self-built desktop computer with 5.1 speaker system as well as a full blown home theater, but I will most certainly watch movies on my 9200 as well(I love movies!) My desktop uses the onbaord Nforce2 5.1 sound but it has no DD or DTS decoding. Occasionally I will use my Sennheiser 580s on the notebook but I want the ability to hook up my 5.1 computer speaker system as well so I've been going back and forth about the Audigy ZS notebook or the Audigy NX USB. Advantages for the ZS notebook are one small PC card slot piece, no power adapter, DTS AND DD, slightly better audio specs. Disadvantages are it has no hardware controls and it's not as configurable with connections, and can only be used with the notebook. With the NX I have a larger external piece, plus power adapter, more connections, hardware controls, no DTS and the ability to use on my desktop as well. I'm leaning towards the the NX but has anyone here used either and want to offer up any info?

    -Kevin
     
    dock44, Jan 9, 2005
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