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- Premium USB Sound Blaster quality sound system
- Audiophile-grade components deliver unsurpassed USB audio quality
- THX TruStudio Pro technology for unprecedented audio realism
- Direct recording from your turntable
- Superior headphone experience
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Product Description
Product Description
Audiophile-grade components deliver unsurpassed USB audio quality.
Audiophile Performance, Convenient Connectivity, USB Simplicity
USB Sound Blaster X-Fi HD is an audiophile-grade sound system with premium connectivity for your Notebook or PC.
The front panel includes a conveniently located 1/4” microphone input and 1/4” headphone jack with a studio quality headphone amp and volume control. The rear panel features optical I/O, gold-plated stereo RCA I/O plus an integrated phono preamp for direct recording of your vinyl collection from your turntable.
The bundled Media Toolbox software lets you record, convert, enhance and organize your digital music files easily while THX TruStudio Pro technology brings you the same great audio experience found in live performances, films, and recording studios.
Connect your turntable directly to easily convert your vinyl.
Premium USB Sound Blaster Quality
Audiophile-grade components deliver unsurpassed USB audio quality with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 114dB.
THX TruStudio Pro for Unprecedented Audio Realism
Unique THX TruStudio Pro technology enhances all of your music, movies and games for maximum enjoyment regardless of your source material.
Note: “THX TruStudio Pro” was previously known as “THX TruStudio PC”.
Direct Recording from Your Turntable
Phono preamp with RIAA EQ allows direct connection of your turntable to conveniently convert your vinyl to CDs or MP3s.
Gold-plated connections ensure the best sound quality.
Superior Headphone Experience
High quality headphone amp supports studio-quality headphones (e.g. <=330Ohms).
Convenient Connectivity
Gold-plated connectivity for maximum signal quality, easily accessible front-mounted headphone and microphone jacks with convenient volume control.
Versatile Audio Software
Creative Media Toolbox software allows you to record, playback, cleanup and organize your digital music files easily.
Manufacturer's Description
Audiophile-grade components deliver unsurpassed USB audio quality.
Audiophile Performance, Convenient Connectivity, USB Simplicity
USB Sound Blaster X-Fi HD is an audiophile-grade sound system with premium connectivity for your Notebook or PC.
The front panel includes a conveniently located 1/4” microphone input and 1/4” headphone jack with a studio quality headphone amp and volume control. The rear panel features optical I/O, gold-plated stereo RCA I/O plus an integrated phono preamp for direct recording of your vinyl collection from your turntable.
The bundled Media Toolbox software lets you record, convert, enhance and organize your digital music files easily while THX TruStudio Pro technology brings you the same great audio experience found in live performances, films, and recording studios.
Connect your turntable directly to easily convert your vinyl.
Premium USB Sound Blaster Quality
Audiophile-grade components deliver unsurpassed USB audio quality with a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 114dB.
THX TruStudio Pro for Unprecedented Audio Realism
Unique THX TruStudio Pro technology enhances all of your music, movies and games for maximum enjoyment regardless of your source material.
Note: “THX TruStudio Pro” was previously known as “THX TruStudio PC”.
Direct Recording from Your Turntable
Phono preamp with RIAA EQ allows direct connection of your turntable to conveniently convert your vinyl to CDs or MP3s.
Gold-plated connections ensure the best sound quality.
Superior Headphone Experience
High quality headphone amp supports studio-quality headphones (e.g. <=330Ohms).
Convenient Connectivity
Gold-plated connectivity for maximum signal quality, easily accessible front-mounted headphone and microphone jacks with convenient volume control.
Versatile Audio Software
Creative Media Toolbox software allows you to record, playback, cleanup and organize your digital music files easily.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I have been using it for the last week, and I can say the sound quality is superb among all the other general purpose external usb audio solution and even the audio quality is better than some of the previous internal X-Fi cards. I'm using it on my notebook that is equipped with intel core i7 so in this set up I never face a slow in performance, I would say the usb X-Fi HD have to meet the min system requirements otherwise, it will use a lot of CPU cycles (at least dual-core CPU).
My impressions with usb X-Fi HD is the support of EAX up to 4.0 through OpenAL , I tried playing some games that support EAX such as PREY, I can select openAL in audio setting and it sound fantastic with enabling the Headphones surround using Sennheiser PC350.
The THX TruStudio effects are just an audio tweaking in software level, the two important effects for me are the Surround and the rest are just an equalizer effects nothing more.
What makes me disappointed on usb X-Fi HD is the adverting of superior headphone experience with of supports studio-quality headphones, in real test I would the headphones output is not a true headphone studio quality, it doesn't have capability of driving high Impedance headphones, I can easily recognize the difference between driving Sennheiser PC350 from dedicated Head-amp in Asus Xonar stx that pushes PC350 to full potential and usb X-Fi headphone output that just drive I would say not fully you need to set the volume more than 80% to get the maximum possible loudness, I'm not arguing on the audio quality but on the driving power due to poor usb based-power. Anyway, low Impedance headphones are supposed to work perfectly.
The usb X-Fi HD lack dolby digital live and dts as creative can include these and even many features (e.g. op-amp swapping) into usb X-Fi HD but creative didn't make all these features available they want to differentiate between their products.
In conclusion, I recommend usb X-Fi HD to both notebook users and desktop users either listening through headphones or hi-fi louder-speakers as it stands against some internal cards in terms of audio quality.
UPDATE:
As I mentioned above, regarding hooking low Impedance headphones, I tried Sennheiser HD595 and it sounds wonderfully great with more than sufficient loudness. Such pair of headphones are a perfect match with this USB card.
My impressions with usb X-Fi HD is the support of EAX up to 4.0 through OpenAL , I tried playing some games that support EAX such as PREY, I can select openAL in audio setting and it sound fantastic with enabling the Headphones surround using Sennheiser PC350.
The THX TruStudio effects are just an audio tweaking in software level, the two important effects for me are the Surround and the rest are just an equalizer effects nothing more.
What makes me disappointed on usb X-Fi HD is the adverting of superior headphone experience with of supports studio-quality headphones, in real test I would the headphones output is not a true headphone studio quality, it doesn't have capability of driving high Impedance headphones, I can easily recognize the difference between driving Sennheiser PC350 from dedicated Head-amp in Asus Xonar stx that pushes PC350 to full potential and usb X-Fi headphone output that just drive I would say not fully you need to set the volume more than 80% to get the maximum possible loudness, I'm not arguing on the audio quality but on the driving power due to poor usb based-power. Anyway, low Impedance headphones are supposed to work perfectly.
The usb X-Fi HD lack dolby digital live and dts as creative can include these and even many features (e.g. op-amp swapping) into usb X-Fi HD but creative didn't make all these features available they want to differentiate between their products.
In conclusion, I recommend usb X-Fi HD to both notebook users and desktop users either listening through headphones or hi-fi louder-speakers as it stands against some internal cards in terms of audio quality.
UPDATE:
As I mentioned above, regarding hooking low Impedance headphones, I tried Sennheiser HD595 and it sounds wonderfully great with more than sufficient loudness. Such pair of headphones are a perfect match with this USB card.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I use this with my laptop as my laptop doesn't have a great sound card.
I use this with my Shure SRH840 headphones and don't have any problems with latency or drivers. Everything works and sounds perfect.
I use this with my Shure SRH840 headphones and don't have any problems with latency or drivers. Everything works and sounds perfect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I bought one of these a while ago because, increasingly, I'm using my pc to play music. I already had an external Creative card and that was fine, but it wasn't exactly hi fi so I thought I would splash out, and give this posh one a try.
Although I had some trouble setting it up now I have it working it sounds amazing. I have it playing direct from an hd into a good amp and speakers. Previously I used a Naim cd player, and they are pretty good, but this sounds far better than that did.
Make sure you disable all the other sound devices on your pc, and if you are planning to use the phono you may need to reboot the device, also switch the phono off when you are done with it, because it can cause the device to crash next time you boot up.
Really great sound, fabulous timing and clarity, the best I have ever achieved.
Although I had some trouble setting it up now I have it working it sounds amazing. I have it playing direct from an hd into a good amp and speakers. Previously I used a Naim cd player, and they are pretty good, but this sounds far better than that did.
Make sure you disable all the other sound devices on your pc, and if you are planning to use the phono you may need to reboot the device, also switch the phono off when you are done with it, because it can cause the device to crash next time you boot up.
Really great sound, fabulous timing and clarity, the best I have ever achieved.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
perfect for my needs
i bought this so that i could improve the sound quality of my laptop for making music and i have to say that the difference in sound quality is quite staggering. Read more
Published 5 months ago by dick_rivers
terrible latency problems
OK, well I'd give it lots of stars for playback but the latency on recording makes it impossible to live with and, if I can't find a solution, it will have to go. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Martyn K. Postle
Terrible driver support for Windows 7 64bit
I used this card with headphones on Windows 7 64bit system. Drivers provided by Creative is very sloppy work. The sound crackles which is unbearable. Read more
Published 18 months ago by cas
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