Creative is very well known for their audio-related hardware and from time to time they release new cards in their Sound Blaster line, beginning with the first generation 8-bit ISA & MCA cards, and ending with the sixth generation Sound Core3D cards which incorporate the Recon3D and the Z-Series. The Sound Blaster ZxR uses the same Sound Core3D chip as the previous Sound Blaster Recon3D but the overall quality has been improved by including different Op-Amps, DACs and ADCs. The enclosure the product ships in is considerably larger compared to the one we have seen with the Titanium HD and features some small plastic windows, so we will be able to take a small peak at the internals:

On the lateral side of the box we will be able to see the list of inside contents:

Some of the technologies supported are also listed on one of the laterals; we were able to see these also with the Sound Blaster Cinema software, bundled with certain motherboards in order to enhance the sound effects:

On the opposite side of the packaging we will be able to see the card outputs:

More detailed information can be read on the back side of the box:

After opening the enclosure we will find two separate, smaller cardboard boxes but also one ribbon cable, one male mini jack to dual RCA cable and also one female mini jack to dual RCA cable:

Separately we will get an optical cable along with a bag with documentation and driver/applications disk:

The small manual will inform us in a couple of steps how to perform the installation:

The ZxR setup is composed not from only one, but two cards; the smaller daughter card is named DBpro: