Sound Blaster ZxR - Whats going on, where is it?

Hello everyone looking for some answers here.
Wanting to know when the ZxR is going to be out in the UK. Everything I have seen has spoken about early December, this is now the last day of. So what's going on here? The release date has passed and I still cannot find anything explaining it from you guys? I have been waiting nearly a year to upgrade my faulty Sound Blaster X-Fi that has finally died after years of hardcore service and to be honest none of the recent creative cards have been worth swapping it for. Honestly if this card isnt out soon I'll just have to buy a Xonar or something I have always been a creative customer never bought anything other than your sound cards but this is just a joke now and is definitely going to lose your company customers.
I would like some actual information on when it is coming out or if you don't know the proper reason why it isn't out. If its due to faults or issues your customers would want to know this, it would make them happier that you care about quality of use for example. Ignoring us just makes people get annoyed and turn away
Look forward to a reply
Greg M
Glasgow, UK

That's still the bare minimum of information, and still as vaige as it can be... Can't you guys do better than this? where the f... is the customer satisfaction? this is almost funny how bad this is :/
I suppose I will wait 14 more days if I cant get it by the 18th I'll just go get a card from another company. It wont be what I want but atleast I CAN get one and the customer service will be a bit better Creative you need to pull yourselves together I am very disappointed with this company lately. Can't even get a good sound card from my favourite manufacturer. I will just have to keep listening to my Zen Vision:M YES I HAVE ONE OF THEM TOO!!!

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I'm using an Intel Core i7 2600 in an Asus p8p67 deluxe running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 using the Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR.
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What audio device capabilities enumeration is being used to determine if incoming AC3 multichannel digital optical signals are more than stereo since this stream could, in theory, change on the fly depending on the program material being sent by the source device?
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To see the physical appearance of the Creative Labs Sound Blaster ZxR DBpro daughter card with its gray output Toslink female socket and its black input Toslink socket, do a Google image search as follows:
"sound blaster zxr" optical in dbpro "daughter card"
http://goo.gl/ewO6ha
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Could a software layer or function be added in audacity to parse the incoming data stream to determine the streams' characteristics (possibly on the fly -- in real time)?
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Can the driver be updated to fix these problems?
I have posted a few hours ago on the Audacity software's web forums to see if anyone there has any answers as to what can be done and what is happening and what is at fault in this process...
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewto...p?f=46&t=84846

I noticed the following when I more closely examined the SB ZxR Mixer settings...
The Toslink / optical s/pDIF input levels, even when an AC3 surround 5.1 channel stream is being input displays level control sliders for only Left and Right channels, when there should be 6 channels.
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The Creative Audio Control Panel is a single entry leftover from your old X-FI. Uninstall just that. Then you can make a shortcut to the other you were speaking off and put that shortcut wherever you wish. I uninstalled an X-FI before and I had that control panel left over even after uninstalling what I thought was everything.

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Originally Posted by Jupe
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Originally Posted by jincuteguy
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<pre>Thank you for contacting Creative Technical Support Services; we
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>From your descriptions, you are having issue with getting the "What U
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Best Regards,
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Technical Support
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Originally Posted by erikrn
Hi
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Originally Posted by dinopkk
Hi Cavegraffitti,
Since you have tested it on another computer with the same result, there may be a problem with the headset. But do you want to try to do a hardware reset to the headset? It will reset the settings on the headset and maybe fix your problem. This website contains steps to do a hardware reset for the Sound Blaster EVO Zx and it can be used for the ZxR as well.
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I can now confirm what the problem is. After reformatting my whole operating system I was indeed able to get the software to work properly again, however after a windows update the software will not work properly again. Confirmed same thing about the windows update on my other pc as well and the only way to get it to start working again to to do a system restore point before the last update.
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I want a full refund please.

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Originally Posted by erikrn
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My question is: Do the X-Fi Platinum or Fatalty Champion Series cards have the "What U Hear" recording option like it did with previous older Creative cards? *I am now back using Windows XP*
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Well looking over [url="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-soundblaster-xfi.html">here[/url]?you see the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review.
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We know that not all those card will NOT give you What U hear in Vista, so I think it's bad to get the terms confused.
You can find the same on some USB eternals as well, and I've yet to see one than that can do mix (What U hear)
I?suggested to?creative in another thread if they could supply this information rather than let someone buy the card to find out it doesn't.
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Some of those card will with older drivers though.
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I could give you a link to a forum where people are cursing the lack of mix, and I can see it getting worse as people get new PCs with Vista on.
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