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HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
65%
Excellent
16%
Very Good
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Average
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Below Average
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Poor
Rating: 8.56/10
Lorand
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Review Date: 08/29/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Owned this card over a year and it is totally stable in Win7, 32-bit or 64, and XP too. Concerns with drivers or stability? Appear at what other hardware or software program in your Computer may well be conflicting with it. From time to time changing which PCI slot the card sits in is enough, and your option of speakers makes a huge distinction. And download the latest drivers also, no matter if from C-Media or HT Omega. It wasn't constructed with the most current C-Media chip, the 8788, which would double the price tag of the card. The vast, vast majority of sound files will be compatible with any preceding versions, so you'll always get Dolby Digital. The chip on my new board is 8-CH HD (Realtek) and is still not as very good as this card. Paired with Logitech X-540 tends to make this one particular of the ideal buys I've ever made, great value for the value (๠ + ๠). 9 of ten straightforward.
Sherise
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Review Date: 08/12/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Really simple to install, very easy to use, my laptop now sounds like a theater. Very very good obtain and superior then inventive.No issues with install whatsoever, no conflicts no trouble locating the proper drivers ( I have a duel boot sys each vista and win7 ultimate). Give this organization a possibility NONE
Flinn
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Review Date: 08/11/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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-It appears cool.-It sounds great and does most of what it says it will. -I can't get it to do play anything in 24 bit, only 16 bit.-It is more than priced. You can get the similar functionality for significantly less.-Not required for an htpc. I bought this card for an HTPC(Home Theater Pc) and discovered that I didn't want it to realize what I wanted.For an htpc you do not want Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect. What you want is to be capable to pass Dolby Digital and DTS signals to your receiver so your receiver can decode them.Music you don't require in surround sound simply because it's only two channels anyway and will sound better in PCM which most receivers can do.The only reason I can consider of that you would want Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect is if you are playing games with surround sound with your computer connected digitally to a receiver. This card will permit you to get your surround sound from the game by converting the surround signal to Dolby Digital or DTS for your receiver to decode.With the HT Omega drivers I couldn't pass via DTS signals for some explanation and it just didn't operate nicely for me. I was employing the open source cmediadrivers till I found out my onboard sound does greater with 24 bit playback.
Jarvis
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Review Date: 08/09/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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This is the first product that has impressed me so significantly that I feel the want to write a assessment. This card is wonderful, i can hear points in both games and music that I have under no circumstances heard just before. I am mainly a classical music listener, but listen to a bit of everything except for nation. This card is great. Also, the help and warranty for the card is outstanding as I located answers to all my queries on fantastic diagrams and photographs on their website. Way much better than the cre@ative junk i had ahead of this. Do not be scared of the comparatively tiny company, they are fantastic Can\'t believe of any Extremely Advise!
Ayasha
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Review Date: 08/06/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Excellent audio high quality, decent price, and outstanding personable service (tech support will actually speak to you and support you by means of any special challenge you run into) see under Having problem operating ps3's optical out into the input on the card but that may well be an problem with the ps3. Not really a difficulty anyway. Had an situation with ambient sounds playing as well loud in "Hitman: Blood Income" Tech assistance helped me resolve the problem and gave me drivers unlisted on their webpage to resolve the challenge. Tech help responded to my e-mail within the day.
Ania
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Review Date: 07/30/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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New Egg got it to me in 1 day Once more! New Egg is Amazing... The Card is good looking with a gold plated mounting plate and Black PCB. Has Win 7 drivers accessible but I'm not certain if they were related to my concerns. For testing I am utilizing analog stereo Sennheiser headset, a 5.1 Triton headset w(analog and optical DolbyLive) and Klipsch 4.1 speakers and in no way ended up obtaining fantastic sound from them in analog. The optical worked OK but it was the very same as my Soundmax onboard and I prefer analog with my Tritons because the mic functions superior with older games. I'm not confident why they make the mounting plate so extended as it doesn't match in either of my circumstances. Even when completely engaged in the PCI slot the screw plate will be threeቬ" or so from the case and even a extended screw can't be tightened so the card flops about when plugging and unplugging from it. The subsequent thing is the serious lack of volume (even with their Fix drivers it was just weak). Oh and Yes I did use the most up-to-date drivers appropriate from their site... Yes I did remove the old drivers and disable the on-board sound. Yes I set the inputs right and used a number of sources of audio to test this... There's the strange distortion and odd noises that only got worse when you turn the volume up which is where it demands to be just to hear it. It tends to make strange clicking noises when switching or opening windows. I attempted it in two computers with diverse OS, speakers, drivers and so on... and tried all the information I could locate on their FAQ web page hoping to be impressed at some point, but absolutely nothing made this sound like an upgrade to my Soundmax on-board. The inability to mount it appropriately has me questioning if it was moving around and could have shorted/grounded against my other cards causing difficulties, but I can't be certain. Like most persons I was hoping for an underdog to step up so we could get away from megabloat that doesn't even help their personal cards and leaves you stuck with restricted drivers down the road. Maybe HT-Omega is the a single but this card didn't operate for me. Oh and they want to repair the length of the mounting plate so it can be secured in the case and include some color coding stickers for those of us that want to add them to the plug outs. I can't imaging a few cents for stickers would be a enormous deal. Oh and a PCIe card would also be nice! Most of the new MB look to have much more PCIe slots.
Edith
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Review Date: 07/27/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Works wonderful. Nice improvement from my on board audio on my mobo:ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Sound(VIA VT1708S) when you tweak the equalizer. I had some extra money to burn so I decided to buy my initial sound card. I don't know if the improvement is worth 90$. For myself, if it was a decision amongst spending 90$ on a sound card or placing it toward your mobo, CPU, RAM, or a SSD. I would possibly place it to greater use on a thing else like a SSD which I use for my OS and key computer software/games, speeds almost everything up a lot. But I had income for each. Had no issues installing it with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. Omega has great support and client service. Very straightforward.Purchased the Sennheiser HD 280 PRO headphones to go with it. I have tried significantly less expensive headphones (SENNHEISER PC151) with the sound card and you nevertheless notice the distinction. So you don't have to invest another one hundred$ plus on headphones.
Melita
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Review Date: 07/25/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Great sound card, has most preferred inputs and performs great with all my gear. Solid make excellent. No troubles with downloading the most current drivers for windows 7 ultimate 32-bit. Initial impressions: I was installing it and had my old logitech speakers plugged in, I had to do a double take and see what was plugged in, my old speakers seemed supercharged, revived and upset I was obtaining rid of them for the M-audio av40s lol. If you're really serious about music top quality get this card, uncomplicated as that.Incredibly useful on the web support, HT-Omega was on the ball with offering detailed installation directions with my Tritton headset. Extremely rapidly and informative assistance group. Price tag is a tiny bit steep, you get what you spend for. Packaging was simple.Not a fault by any means but please think about your motherboards space, in my case I just barely had sufficient area to install this, huge fat ati card was nearly sitting on this sound card. GIGABYTE GA-MA785GM-US2H ATI XFX 577x My present gear: you may want to take into account some of these to compliment the HT striker.*Sennheiser HD 555 - Wonderful audio quality, moddable, comfy, and handles everything really properly, even gaming. I very recommend these headphones.*M-Audio AV 40 - Highly effective two-piece speaker setup, look these up, awesome! also Extremely advised.*Logitech Z640 - These are going in the garage because I upgraded to the M-audio speakers, but I did attempt them out with the HT striker and was incredibly impressed, I had it set up as a three.1 setup and anything sounded substantially far more crisp and full of detail, I would of been completely happy with these to be truthful.*Tritton ax Pro - Underwhelmed, I tested via each optical and usb cables. I'm not genuinely convinced by this certain headset or any gaming headset really. These are made for positional audio gaming only. Not balanced in that I hear explosions, bass, and specific sound effects overpowering and drowning voice chat and footsteps. music is ok.
Irina
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Review Date: 07/13/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Amazing card that effortlessly drives my HD595s without having an amp. Sound wuality that is unmatched. Drivers set up quickly with out issue. Windows 7 likes! Hugely recommended! Ports aern't named on the sound card so you will need the manual to know which jack does what. Nothing at all else. Win 7 Pro (MSDN Copy) 32biti7-930 OC'd 3.56GA-EX58-UD3RPNY GTX470Antec 902
Truman
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Review Date: 07/08/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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I have a media center Pc hooked to an Onkyo SR507 and a Samsung LN52B750 for higher def movie play. I was looking for an cheap card with optical SPDIF to attempt out. This 1 fit the bill even although I've never ever heard of the organization. I gave it a shot and it offers me a wonderful good quality sound. None so far
Jeff
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Review Date: 06/25/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Awesome sound good qualityRelatively affordable price tagComes with an optical SPDIF cableCustomer is happy :) Drivers on disk not compatible with windows 7....had to download from internet site I do not actually own this card....A consumer of mine recently bought one from here on newegg at my recommendation, and I gladly installed it....not 1 complaint, only praise as to this solution...flawlessSystem I built for my customer:AMD Athlon II X3 440 w/OCZ FreezeBiostar 770 ATX Mobo2 x two GB GSkill DDR3 1333two x 1 GB GSkill DDR3 1333WD Blue 320 GB SATA three. HDDXFX 5670 1 GB GDDR5 GPUSilverstone 400W PSUHT|OMEGA StrikerAVer Media Video Capture PCI-eRosewill PCI-e FireWire 400ǜ-pin 1394Customer uses above setup for video editing in Adobe CS5
Olwen
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Review Date: 06/10/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Sounds great, has drivers that aren't bloated nor difficult, and makes use of a C-Media chip. -The etching is practically not possible to study utilizing a flash light since it doesn't have a color coded sticker for the IO bracket.-Have to manually switch among quantity of input channels (e.g. two for music, six for games and films).-Some audiophiles may possibly not be happy with the restricted choice of alternatives in the software program. The cons are all minor which is why it gets five stars.
Kaili
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Review Date: 06/02/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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The very best soundcard I've ever owned. Paired with a set of Logitech Z-2300s, I couldn't be happier. Music just sounds ridiculous. The clarity and fidelity I'm hearing now tends to make me want I made this move sooner. Was a tiny tricky to seat adequately in my CoolerMaster Stacker 830 case. Soon after about 15 mins I lastly got it installed appropriately. Makes a slight popping noise if I have my speakers on as my computer system boots. No major deal. Outstanding soundcard. Acquire this now.
Barry
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Review Date: 05/27/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Purchased this card little over a year ago for a new construct. The sound high quality is quite very good for the $$ and it does perform in Windows 7, if you don't mind a few glitches. Lack of assistance, yes they will respond but if they can't figure it out you won't hear back from them. Sound card is restricted/broken with windows 7 and you would consider following 17 months they could update the driver/software for Windows 7 Most likely would not purchase or recommend this item again do to the businesses lack of support for Windows 7.
Xuan
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Review Date: 05/19/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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wow,from a sb fatility pro to this and im stunned.actually clear and superb sound for my gaming requirements and blueray motion pictures.awesome card for me,i propose it. none... it functions wonderful with my setup,klipsch 5.1 ultra speakers.my games are solid on sound and blueray playback is stunning.Advise it i do...
Maurilio
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Review Date: 05/08/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Audio Good quality!The sound good quality is grand.Impressive audio excellent, simple to use and navigate interface for configuring your i/o and audio atmosphere.Excellent building, this card is solid and slick.Incredibly good seeking.Front Audio header - get actual use from your front panel audio i/o on that case you enjoy so substantially, which has so far, just collected dust or delivered poor on board sound In all its horror.10 Ft optical Audio cable! (sweet bonus and like the card excellent top quality) None that I locate as a con for the the card itself. This card, I am Incredibly pleased to say was the final death blow to a not so creative monster of poor audio solutions for me.I have about terabyte of music, which consists of a lot more cds than I can recall obtaining, digital downloads and the like.My records, cassettes, and yes even 8-Track cassettes, which I ripped to higher top quality loss-significantly less formats over the previous couple of years all sound amazing.Yey warm and fuzzy lowend!I was not much of a fan of the packing material excess, appears a lot of excess cardboard.On the flip side, I am really pleased that they did not bury the card in plastic casing and foam/plastic padding.HT Omega has claimed a spot in my private builds in the future and builds for my shoppers.
Bob
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Review Date: 04/28/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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As superb card...much far better than these guys who claim to be creative.Great drivers and assistance. Not even a single.Well, MIDI In/Out would be nice, but hey, it isn't necessarily for DAWs, even even though I use it for 1. To date, I have purchased 7 Strikers, 1 Claro +, and one Claro HALO. I bought these for my personal use and for constructing some computer systems for close friends...fellow musicians and audiophiles. I lately had a dilemma with stuttering...HT Omega help got back to me within an hour and helped me operate through the challenge. They are sending a replacement. These guys are on best of their game...and I can't wait for the new card, which will be out Very quickly. I wouldn't even consider of buying a card from a different manufacturer, with the exception of some cards for my qualified work...which cost as substantially as a Buick. LOL Trust me...do you consider I would have purchased eight of their products if they weren't the very best readily available? BTW, most of the bad evaluations here are obtain men and women who don't know how to do a proper install...or who did not make an informed obtain prior to they bought. They are the ones who deserve the poor evaluations, not the HT Omega merchandise.
Linda
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Review Date: 04/28/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Great crisp audio. Audio sounds like it ought to. Doesn't have any static, popping, sizzling noises I've had with Creative cards that I couldn't fix for the life of me. Really simple set up. Steady drivers, haven't had any concerns with stability or audio top quality. Front panel audio works great, I get far better audio out of the front on my headphones. Xear 3D doesn't seem to make a lot impact. The virtual surround doesn't appear to have a massive impact except generating audio louder. Not seriously much of a con, but would be good if the drivers were updated a lot more usually. The Windows 7 drivers are the newest and sound a excellent deal superior than the Vista and XP drivers. I get the feeling this card is becoming held back by drivers. As with any sound card make positive u get uninstall the audio drivers on the old device and disable onboard audio in the bios prior to installing the card. Drives my Sony MDR-XB700 headphones very effectively. As soon as u get this u comprehend how muddied onboard audio is. I can't even utilised my ipod anymore mainly because I realized just how terrible the audio excellent is on it soon after making use of this card.
Sonny
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Review Date: 03/29/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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- High Top quality Build- Lots of Outputs- Very good packaging- Fantastic software program(no bloatware)- Made in the USA- Fixed my FRAPS situation- Improved FPS from Onboard Sound- Front Panel Audio Every thing about this sound card is very good except the hissing noise. >.< It's incredibly audible at 100% volume. I'm going to buy the ASUS Xonar D1 and return this. The ASUS Xonar D1 makes use of the CMI8788, although this card utilizes the CMI8770. The ASUS Xonar D1 is less costly than the HT OMEGA STRIKER as effectively. You're paying a lot more dollars for the extra outputs, which makes sense. I have no use for the added outputs, so the ASUS Xonar D1 is a clear winner for me. 3.5Ǜ EGGs. Onboard Sound is terrible...
Jabir
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Review Date: 03/15/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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It worked suitable out of the box.The drivers for Win7 were effortless to come across on the site.It functions with my current inventive speakers.It's not a creative card with an installation CD chuck full of garbage and bloat, and no further papers included with the manual. I get some weirdness out of the optical in connection, but it is the bargain card, so I'm not complaining. If you're on the fence about a new sound card, I can't advise this one highly sufficient. It makes my bluray player come to life like never prior to, and it just feels excellent to not have a different inventive card in my machine.
Gerald
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Review Date: 03/12/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Great stereo separation, quite clean crisp sound, ten band EQ, drivers function well with no conflicts beneath WIN 7 64 None I bought this to upgrade from the onboard sound on a GA-790FXT A-UD5 board and what a massive distinction! It woke my little 2.1 speakers appropriate up. Sound truly great in games also. I downloaded the Win7 32ኜ drivers prior to set up and they operate fantastic! Just don\'t forget to uninstall your old drivers initially. Will upgrade my speakers subsequent and this rig will really kick....Enjoy !!!!
Lavonne
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Review Date: 03/03/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Decided to attempt some thing new since Creative was SUCK with their drivers. A single of the greatest decision that I've ever produced. I will Under no circumstances acquire Creative sound cards once again, these HT Omega puts Inventive to SHAME plus their drivers are extremely very good and stable. Sound top quality is excellent. Trust me guys these are much greater than Creative. Attempt them out and you will see!!! None
Clio
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Review Date: 03/01/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Price and characteristics. The drivers and program had been not compatable with Windows 7. When I downloaded the new ones from the producers web page I recieved a virus. The sound quality was modest at ideal and vulnerable to interference and also distorted. Ought to have just stayed with Creative, as an alternative of reading these critiques coming to a terrible decision.
Axelle
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Review Date: 02/27/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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So far this is my preferred component of my new computer system. I do create music on my computer system and this sound card so far has been far more than up to the job of playing several sounds at the all over the spectrum. Instructions had been excellent and drivers have been a breeze. The writting on the back plate is challenging to read and inverted when installed. I didnt see this as a huge difficulty since it isn't a dilemma that will last longer than installation. just study the manual to figure out which port is for which speaker. it makes it considerably less complicated
Richard
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Review Date: 02/20/13
HT | OMEGA STRIKER Sound Card
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Front Panel audio connector in the card, optical in AND out. Uses just a PCI slot, not PCI express. I have only a single PCI express x1 slot and want that for a sata card. Most cards that do the same are PCI ex only. It's a lot of connectors crammed onto the backplate and want it was somehow labled better. This blew away any other sound card I've ever applied. Apparently there are troubles with Win 7 but is operating in Vista 64-bit for me.
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