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Turtle Beach Montego 7.1 Dolby Digital Live Surround PCI Sound Card

Turtle Beach Montego
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Customer Reviews:  ( 23 reviews)
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Item Number: T777-1028
Model: TBS-3300-01
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High Quality, Dolby Digital Live Sound for your PC
Experience the thrill of home theater, multi-channel sound on your PC. Montego DDL combines cutting-edge technology, audiophile sonic-quality and an unprecedented array of features to deliver PC audio performance normally reserved for the finest home audio equipment. Whether you're playing games, listening to music, or watching DVD movies on your PC, Montego DDL provides the best surround-sound experience with multi-channel analog and high-resolution digital audio with Dolby® Digital Live.

With Dolby® Digital Live technology, you can now enjoy audio from your PC or game console through your home theater. A real-time encoding technology, Dolby Digital Live converts any audio signal into a Dolby Digital bitstream for transport and playback through a home theater system. With it, your PC or game console can be hooked up to your Dolby Digital-equipped audio/video receiver or digital speaker system via a single digital connection, eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal.

PC Games come to life!
Compatibility with 3D gaming audio standards transforms game play into an exciting and realistic experience by reproducing audio cues and sound effects that follow the on-screen action. The multi-channel clarity of Dolby® Digital Live game play on a digital sound system provides a breathtaking experience for serious gamers.
Home Theater Surround Sound
The S/PDIF optical digital output allows for pass-through of Dolby® Digital and DTS® multi-channel DVD sound to external A/V receivers, so audio played on your PC can be heard with true multi-channel surround sound on your home-theater system.
Digital Signal Processing
A virtual surround processor converts stereo to multi-channel format so you can listen to 2-channel digital music or movies with simulated surround sound. Digital signal processing effects such as 10-band EQ, environments, key-shifting, voice morphing and voice canceling also enrich your audio experience.
Crystal Clear Digital Output
Connect to the latest high-tech home entertainment equipment with a pure digital distortion-free signal for low noise, high fidelity audio reproduction. Multi-channel PC audio can be connected via a single optical digital cable eliminating the confusion of multiple cables and ensuring the integrity of the audio signal.

Turtle Beach Montego Software Package

3D Multi-Channel Audio Demo
Modify and calibrate your speaker setup with this 3D sound generation tool.
Record Producer LE
The Limited Edition of Record Producer enables you to create songs and compositions that sound like they were recorded in a professional music studio!
AudioSurgeon LE
Don’t just download digital music! Record it, edit it, transform it, manipulate it, and burn it to CD! AudioSurgeon lets you get inside your digital music files for the ultimate in customization and control
MusicWrite LE
Limited edition version of Voyetra’s powerful music notation program. Record music from a MIDI keyboard and see notation appear on the PC screen. Edit music notation with your mouse. Video tutorial included.
Recording Station
This easy-to-use, MIDI and digital audio recording studio will let you create MIDI songs with your PC and MIDI keyboard. Record songs with multiple MIDI instruments and add vocals or acoustic instruments



Detailed Features

Specifications

  • Optical S/PDIF In/Out for playback of pure digital audio at resolutions of up to 24 Bits at 96kHz (out) sample rate playback and 16 Bits at 48kHz sample rate for recording (in). Allows for pass-through of Dolby® Digital and DTS® multi-channel DVD sound to external A/V receivers or digital speaker systems
  • Selectable 2, 4, 6 or 8 output channels with 24 bit playback at up to 96 kHz sampling rate
  • Converts stereo sound sources to multi-channel format, so you can listen to 2-channel MP3 digital music or movies with enhanced multi-speaker surround sound environment
  • Pure surround sound and virtual surround sound from eight analog outputs provides 7.1 surround sound for DVDs, CDs, and MP3s
  • Supports Game Surround Sound APIs such as EAX 2.0 and A3D
  • PCI 2.2 Interface with bus mastering and burst modes

A Closer Look


Features

  • Mic Input
  • Stereo Line Input
  • Front channels L/R out (1 & 2)
  • Surround channels L/R out (3 & 4)
  • Center/Sub woofer channels out (5 & 6)
  • Rear channels L/R out (7 & 8)
  • S/PDIF Out (Optical)
  • S/PDIF In (Optical)
  • Internal input connectors for CD and Aux audio sources
Customer Reviews and Rating  
Customer Rating:    4.3
Customer Reviews: 23

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Value 4.3
Features 4.3
Quality 4.2
Performance 4.3

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Reviewer:  Anonymous  on  Sep 26, 2008
Customer Rating:    3.3
Value 3.0
Features 4.0
Quality 2.0
Performance 4.0

I've been using this card for over a year now connected via optical S/PDIF with my Pioneer receiver and the Dolby Digital Live feature works very nicely for movies and DVDs as well as most games. I have encountered recurring problems with some games, however. The drivers for this card are pretty poorly written and do not properly support EAX, causing hard lock-ups when a game tries to use advanced EAX features. If the game does not allow you to disable this, it can become unplayable unless you switch to another sound card. Turtle Beach offers terrible driver support and haven't updated the Windows XP drivers for over 2 years, so I doubt this problem will ever be addressed. When I bought the card, it was the best solution for live encoding of surround sound, but there are better cards out there now. I'd recommend you look elsewhere before considering this card and its poorly-supported drivers.


Reviewer:  BULLDOZER on  May 08, 2008
Customer Rating:    1.5
Value 1.0
Features 3.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

BOUGHT THIS CARD COUPLE MONTHS AGO HAD NOTHING BUT TROUBLE IT PLAYED FOR A DAY THEN TOOK A CRAP SENT BACK TIGER SHIPPED ANOTHER ONE AS SOON AS I CALLED INSTALED SECOND CARD DOA. SINT BACK THIS CARD IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE TIGER WAS GREAT FOR SHIP AND RETURN A SHORT TIME AGO ORDERED A DIAMOND XTREME 7-1 WORKS GREAT HALF THE PRICE ALSO TECH SUPPORT NO PHONE SUPPORT WITH MONTEGO I HOPE THIS REVIEW GETS IN AS IT IS THE SECOND ONE IVE WROTE COME ON TIGER WHATS THE POINT OF A REVIEW IF YOU WONT PRINT IT THIS PRODUCT IS TROUBLE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW


Reviewer:  oldgoosebe on  Mar 13, 2008
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

I've been using this card for almost a year now, and I just transfered it into my new PC after having lots of crappy sound output from the X-fi PCI-e Card I was using. The drivers for XP are a bit better than Vista, Vista's are a bit quirky, but you can still get surround sound sorta if you fiddle with the settings. Only 32 bit drivers so far, so if you need 64 bit drivers you will have to use X-Plosion and X-Mystique drivers which actually do work for the Turtle beach card, but lack the features of the Turtle beach drivers. I wasn't going to write a review, but after the crappy onboard sound from my latest MB and than the crappy sound from the X-fi, I figured I should give my thumbs up for this sweet deal of a card. With optical 5.1 output, it makes almost every other sound card garbage unless you want to go crappy multichannel analog output. A thing to note: remember to download the volume control program so you can control the volume when using digital output (winxp)


Reviewer:  Q4KJT on  Mar 03, 2008
Customer Rating:    4.8
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 4.0

Center channel not working with alsa 1.0.16. Other then that, this is the best sound card I have heard! Way less hassle to get up and running then more common sound cards. Detects as a C-Media CMI8768-MC8.


Reviewer:  DaveB89 on  Feb 13, 2008
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

I must be the odd man out. Card never worked. Been doing this for a while now, and sound cards used to be the easiest thing to upgrade. Have a great XFX mobo with onboard Realtek surround, Intel dual core proc, and brand new surround speakers. NEVER got sound out of this card. Uninstalled all the original drivers, many clean installs, reinserted card many times, followed all TB faq's...tried everything - no sound...I draw the line at 10-15 hours of install for a sound card. Should've taken 15 minutes.


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Manufactured by: TurtleBeach
Warranty provided by: TurtleBeach
Limited Warranty: 3 months parts; 3 months labor
Mfg Part No: TBS-3300-01
UPC No: 731855033003
Box Size: ( Length: 12, Width: 10, Depth: 4 )
Shipping Weight: .7000 pound(s)
Dimensional Weight: 3 pounds

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