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Just want to be clear and inform Googlers off the bat that if you’re thinking of upgrading to a Creative X-FI sound card and you have the Creative DTT 3500 or other speakers that use the Digital DIN proprietary creative jack, you’re SOL as they don’t work.

2 products, same company, incompatible… sad ain’t it?

What’s creative’s answer to this? Nothing, they suggest you purchase new speakers.

My answer to creative, never purchase anything from creative again.

I’m sure glad I google products before I buy them. I was just about to go get myself the x-fi pro because my audigy 2 has been nothing but problematic since my Vista upgrade. Guess I should have googled that before I upgraded to Vista…

Anyhow, thanks everyone on the creative forum for posting and thanks creative for having the decency to not delete this thread, even though it means loosing clients. I recall several years ago when they hid their support on the passworded news groups and going through a similar long thread when I purchased my DTT3500 and found out that those speakers where incompatible the other Sblive card I had, so I had to upgrade to a new sound card that had the digital DIN. Now it’s swapped to my 3500′s not being compatible with the new sound cards… Go figure, brilliance at it’s dimmest.

I didn’t learn my lesson then, but have learnt it know. I will never support anything created by Creative because their sneaky proprietary marketing scams, absolutely horrible customer support, expensive, incompatible shady hardware that becomes obsolete in a few years.

Check out the outstanding customer support in this Long Thread…

Anyhow, now I’m a hunt for 5.1 gaming and a good ASIO sound card for Vista… Wish me luck.