Sound Blaster has been around since the inception of sound card technology. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was ?The Adlib Multimedia PC Upgrade Kit? and the ?Sound Blaster Multimedia Upgrade Kit?. It consisted of a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and a small set of speakers for a mere $369.00, and the CD-ROM drive was 1x speed. Fast forward to today and the Sound Blaster ZxR is light years ahead of its ancient cousin, and by yesteryear standards, barely recognizable as a sound card.

In reality, one would have to specify that this is actually a sound card system, as the Sound Blaster ZxR consists of a mother card, a daughter card and a front dock that lets you plug in speakers and headsets and switch between them without having to plug and unplug devices.