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Turtle Beach Catalina comparison

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Product name	Turtle Beach Catalina	Turtle Beach Montego DDL - sound card	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music	Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro	Creative Labs Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX
Price	Check Prices	$50.53 to $66.56	$146.99	Check Prices	$149.99
CNET editors' rating	3.5 stars Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)	stars Overall score: ( stars)	stars Overall score: ( stars)	4.0 stars Overall score: 8.3 (4.0 stars)	4.5 stars Overall score: 9.0 (4.5 stars)
Average user rating			3.5 stars	3.5 stars	3.0 stars
Release date	March 23, 2004			November 01, 2004
The Bottom Line	The spare Turtle Beach Catalina sound card provides inexpensive 7.1-channel audio, but the lack of a discrete digital signal processor could hamper gameplay.			Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro is the must-have sound card for hard-core gamers, PC-theater aficionados, and audiophiles.	The Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum eX boasts a huge selection of multichannel sound-processing capabilities, I/O options, and bundled software and accessories. The inclusion of IEEE 1394 connections makes this a nearly perfect product.
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Features	EAX Dolby Digital ready	EAX Dolby Digital ready Full-duplex support	SuperRip Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) - 3D	THX certified WMA compatible EAX ADVANCED HD Dolby Digital ready Advanced Resolution DVD-Audio	EAX EAX ADVANCED HD Dolby Digital ready
Operating system	Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP	Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition	Microsoft Windows XP SP2	Microsoft Windows XP SP1 Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2	Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Miscellaneous compliant standards	CE FCC Part 15 B	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Plug and Play
Response bandwidth	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	10 - 88000 Hz	Info unavailable	10 - 22000 Hz
Min hard drive space	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	600 MB
Min RAM size	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	Info unavailable	64 MB
Sound output mode	7.1 channel surround	7.1 channel surround	7.1 channel surround	7.1 channel surround	5.1 channel surround
Audio output interface type	PCI	PCI	PCI	PCI	PCI
Full specifications	Full specifications	Full specifications	Full specifications	Full specifications	Full specifications
Buying choices	E-mail me when this product is available	Amazon.com $57.52 In stock: Yes Amazon.com Marketplace $50.53 In stock: Yes Next Warehouse $66.56 In stock: Yes Prices from 3 CNET Certified stores	Amazon.com Marketplace $146.99 In stock: Yes Price from 1 CNET Certified store	E-mail me when this product is available	Amazon.com Marketplace $149.99 In stock: Yes Price from 1 CNET Certified store
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