When I say ’sound card’, which brand comes to mind? More than likely it is Creative. They have been an undisputed leader in the sound card world for many years now. Looked to by gamers and powers users alike, Creative has always done right by their customers.

Today, we are going to look at the Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook sound card. I will give you that it must seem like a mouthful to even pronounce all of that, but the inescapable truth is that once again Creative has produced a superior product.

Creative’s Sound Blaster line offers the most feature-complete sound cards in the business, and the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook is a logical progression for the Audigy 2 family. It brings the entire feature set to laptop gamers and audio enthusiasts, and from our testing, it’s a solid implementation that will spruce up any laptop audio sub-system. It also brings EAX 4.0, DTS, Dolby Digital, THX, and DVD-Audio to the laptop market–something no other mobile audio solution has done. At $129, the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook is pretty easy on the wallet, too.