Anyone tried the Turtle Beach USB audio cards?

[Jake Jackson]

I've looked at their Audio Advantage SRM, their Amigo, and their Micro, all about the size of a flash drive.

http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/soundcards.aspx

But the company doesn't list the specs on their website or on the packaging. (As in freq response range.) Anyone have experience with these? Do they provide as good a sound as a full-sized usb soundcard box, or are these more for gamers? (But don't gamers want to see the specs, too?)

[C00kie]

Wanna see figures and graphs?

Here are some measurements by the RightMark Audio Analyser software I found of the Audio Advantage Micro: http://166.70.233.190/rmaa/Turtle%20Bea ... 0Micro.htm

Especially the poor harmonic distortion figures makes this device rate worse than perfect. A RealTek AC97 based USB sound stick would perform better than this.

The same guy also has a comparative page with a couple of USB sound devices: http://166.70.233.190/rmaa/Revised%20Comparison.htm
Of the ones he tested the Chaintech AV-710 seems to perform the best.
(oops, that seems to be his PCI reference card with the Envy24 chipset)

[Jake Jackson]

Thanks so much for posting those links. Looks as though the Turtle Beach cards are not quite there yet. I hesitated because of the price, which seemed too good to be true, but at the same time, Turtle Beach used to be known for making good audio cards.