Turtle Beach Roadie adds surround sound to laptops

by Marc Perton posted Jan 31st 2006 at 11:43AM

Turtle Beach has upgraded its Audio Advantage family of external sound cards with the Roadie, a $79.95 USB-based adapter that the company says brings 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound to any laptop. The USB-powered device includes stereo inputs and outputs, along with integrated stereo mics. Of course, this may be overkill if you've just got a pile of highly compressed MP3s on your laptop. But if you use your laptop to play lossless audio, watch DVDs or frag your opponents, this could be just the thing you need to crank it up to 11.

Filed under: Laptops, Portable Audio

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Rob Sayers @ Jan 31st 2006 12:03PM

If it does work with OSX, it would be perfect for my Mac Mini.

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Eric @ Jan 31st 2006 12:09PM

Does it need to be Mac compatible? Don't the PowerBooks (or MacBook Pro) have optical in/out anyway?

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Revrant @ Jan 31st 2006 12:42PM

Hey, neato, I hope ol'Turtle can get back into the game, their latent release of products have all mostly been top quality stuff, though I wish they'd of made that Console headset more PC compatible...that looked sweet, far better than the PC one, I'm happy with my Montego DDL all the same though, best thing since the Santa Cruz.

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nick @ Jan 31st 2006 3:01PM

Can somebody tell me how this is any different than a 7.1 external USB M-Audio Sonica Theater I purchased over two years ago?

It was only $85 bucks, and works great. I believe it has Mac drivers as well

http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/SonicaTheater-main.html

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Hugo Costeira @ Feb 1st 2006 10:53AM

Does anyone knows if I can get this device in Portugal?

Tks
Hugo

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