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BrandCreative Labs
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- Easy to install, bus-powered USB 2.0 Sound Blaster in a sleek and compact design
- Makes MP3/WMA music sound better and is great for gaming
- Incredible surround sound for movies, music and gaming even over stereo headphones
- IR Remote and Entertainment Center gives full screen navigation
- Includes Cyberlink PowerDVD software
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Why settle for basic, built-in sound? Your music and movies deserve Xtreme Fidelity. Simply connect the Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 sound card to your PC or notebook and turn your downloaded music into your own personal concert. Watch DVDs or downloaded videos with full cinematic surround sound. Plus experience 3D audio and EAX effects in your games.Restore the details and vibrancy your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all - crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance. Listen on a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.Slip on your headphones and X-Fi CMSS-3D technology moves the sound away from your ears and into the space around you. You'll feel like you're sitting with your favorite band or in the best seat in the movie theater. Games sound better too with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
I bought this sound card from Amazon to use with my Logitech Z5500 5.1 surround speakers and my HP laptop. I am using the system mostly for high-quality (lossless) music and movies, but never tried with games. At the moment, the sound card simply works with all functions it is advertised for.
The only lie on the advert of this product is the EASE to set it up. Yes, I agree that it is pretty easy to get analog sound from this sound card (taking about 10 minutes or so). But it took me a week to pass "true" digital 5.1 DTS/Dolby sound through TOSLINK optical port of this card from the laptop to the speakers. (For those who care about tackling this SPDIF issue, the trick I figured out is so simple: go to Creative support site, download and install ALL updates available.)
I see some users complain about the CMSS 5.1 sound simulation of the card. Yes, most of the time it works quite okay, but sometime it provides distorted and unbalanced sound when used to upmix stereo to 5.1. But I really don't care much about this CMSS function, as I don't need "fake" 5.1 sound coming from low-quality stereo MP3s but always use high bitrate .dts files or DVDs.
So, if you have a good 5.1 sound system and a laptop, just buy this sound card. It is really cheap though, for the price of about £35.
The only lie on the advert of this product is the EASE to set it up. Yes, I agree that it is pretty easy to get analog sound from this sound card (taking about 10 minutes or so). But it took me a week to pass "true" digital 5.1 DTS/Dolby sound through TOSLINK optical port of this card from the laptop to the speakers. (For those who care about tackling this SPDIF issue, the trick I figured out is so simple: go to Creative support site, download and install ALL updates available.)
I see some users complain about the CMSS 5.1 sound simulation of the card. Yes, most of the time it works quite okay, but sometime it provides distorted and unbalanced sound when used to upmix stereo to 5.1. But I really don't care much about this CMSS function, as I don't need "fake" 5.1 sound coming from low-quality stereo MP3s but always use high bitrate .dts files or DVDs.
So, if you have a good 5.1 sound system and a laptop, just buy this sound card. It is really cheap though, for the price of about £35.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
As the product says 5.1 surround, High fidelity and adapters. That all works fine but a few things have come to my attention...
The remote doesn't work or respond.
the volume and mute button on the soundcard has no purpose or function AT ALL
for the software to work you need intel core 2 duo or better.
And the most annoying of all- the soundcard only works with WAV or MP3 files, so any music studio software you have, the souncard WILL NOT respond, so you have to plug your headphones in your PC instead.
UPDATE: Three months after this review and I finally got everything working! It did take a while as the CD given is essential to use the soundcard for more than just 'a soundcard' and the reason it took a while was because the negotiating round the installation CD was hard to do and realised I kept pressing 'no' for the extra software.
Warning though, if you are audiophile enthusiasts, you'll know it will hype the bass and high end (not that great when you already have a very bassy 2.1 Creative speaker system) so whatever you are playing (for example, live recordings)it will never sound as it would in real life. But this thing is used mainly for the surround sound effect. It comes with outputs for each speaker on a 5.1 system and also has extra sockets for headphone gamers (mic, line in and headphone) and even comes with an extra socket for DAC's, amps and so on...
Now that I finally 'worked it out' it's becoming more of a joy every second.
The remote doesn't work or respond.
the volume and mute button on the soundcard has no purpose or function AT ALL
for the software to work you need intel core 2 duo or better.
And the most annoying of all- the soundcard only works with WAV or MP3 files, so any music studio software you have, the souncard WILL NOT respond, so you have to plug your headphones in your PC instead.
UPDATE: Three months after this review and I finally got everything working! It did take a while as the CD given is essential to use the soundcard for more than just 'a soundcard' and the reason it took a while was because the negotiating round the installation CD was hard to do and realised I kept pressing 'no' for the extra software.
Warning though, if you are audiophile enthusiasts, you'll know it will hype the bass and high end (not that great when you already have a very bassy 2.1 Creative speaker system) so whatever you are playing (for example, live recordings)it will never sound as it would in real life. But this thing is used mainly for the surround sound effect. It comes with outputs for each speaker on a 5.1 system and also has extra sockets for headphone gamers (mic, line in and headphone) and even comes with an extra socket for DAC's, amps and so on...
Now that I finally 'worked it out' it's becoming more of a joy every second.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Make sure you look at the dates of the 1 star reviews, autumn 2008, Creative have obviously fixed the problems these people were having back then, because mine sounds great!
Using it with some creative T6100 speakers and it sounds fantastic. The crystalizer and the CMSS3D are very effective and noticeable.
In case anyone was unsure, a 3.5mm jack to phono plugs convertor is supplied.
Using it with some creative T6100 speakers and it sounds fantastic. The crystalizer and the CMSS3D are very effective and noticeable.
In case anyone was unsure, a 3.5mm jack to phono plugs convertor is supplied.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
This card is actually really good!
I've noticed there are a lot of bad comments about this product but let me just give my perspective on this as I have owned the soundcard for approx. three years. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tommy
EXCELLENT PRODUCT!
I Love It I Love It! I have tried it, and now I cant do without it. The sound quality is improved over and over! the sound effects are excellent. Read more
Published 18 months ago by rhon
Great sound
The X-Fi was a doddle to install on Win7 64bit. Just followed the instructions in it was up and running all in about 10 mins. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Tone the Moan
XP driver issues
I've now had this soundcard for a year, but not for much longer...
There are a couple of driver issues (I'm using XP if that matters; I doubt it). Read more
There are a couple of driver issues (I'm using XP if that matters; I doubt it). Read more
Published 23 months ago by Steve Swift
Shoddy hardware, shoddy support
Despite Creative's usual attempts to force at least 10 useless pieces of resources-hogging software, setting this card up is relatively simple. Read more
Published on 4 May 2010 by Rich
Couldn't wait to try it when it arrived
I wanted this card so that I could play tunes through an old
set of 5.1 Creative speakers using my laptop. As I said I
couldn't wait to try it when it arrived. Read more
set of 5.1 Creative speakers using my laptop. As I said I
couldn't wait to try it when it arrived. Read more
Published on 27 April 2010 by A. Rowley
If you appreciate music...................buy this
Have purchased the Sound Blaster X-Fi surround 5.1,if you appreciate your music, then this is a must. Read more
Published on 7 April 2010 by A. Mitchell
Very good option for a sound card
I will give 100% to this product because it is an excellent sound system with a software the sound can be controlled according to our interest. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2010 by Anand Balachandran Nair
No native support for Dolby Digital
I purchased the sound card shortly after buying my home theatre system when I realized that the laptop card did not handle 5. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2010 by Mr. M. Rossi
A Great Purchase
A great product straight from the box.The Card sounds amazing. Works absolutely fine with Windows 7. A real bargain price for what you get. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2010 by Mr. S. A. Lucas
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