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Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 | 
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| Category: CE
Buy New: £34.53
New (4) Used (1) from £34.00
Rating:  5 reviews
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
Model: 70SB109000002
EAN: 5390660146657
ASIN: B0019JDDC8
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Awful for listening to music. August 17, 2008
C. P. Tetley (UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this for 39.99 from our local Argos store (as it was 20 cheaper than on Amazon), as I wanted an external sound card to play back music from my computer
Listening to MP3s through reasonable powered stereo monitors, it's sound really is offensive. You can really hear the poorly implemented psycho-acoustic treatments, ('X-Fi audio enhancements') in operation - boosting/compressing/expanding all sorts of frequencies - which totally screws the equalisation and balance of the original recordings to create a complete mess!
I now think these must be aimed at gamers who want everything to fizz, whizz and bang in their game of choice on cheap computer speakers, while they concentrate on the visuals. However, for any kind of music fan who wants a realistic reproduction of their music, listening on reasonable stereo monitors (as I was), the sound would be laughable if you had not paid for the privilege.
 Does its job mentioned by Creative July 3, 2008
Mr. V. GANAPATHY (Cardiff, UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
To be short it does its job as per mentioned by creative company, and
To be brief,
Many people said it takes lots of memory and CPU performance but it didn't do anything like that. If you install the components properly and follow the steps they told then I am sure it'll work properly. Crystalizer and CMSS 3D are running in a good way and does provides DTS and Dolby Digital for 5.1 audio in 24bit and 98Khz Volume Signal and has a mic in, headphone and line in connection in the side. Provides SPDIF Optical connection also. A good replacement for my Laptop, my desktop and comes with a remote too. what more you want compact, trendy external sound card in here in the world. Good effort by creative. Pretty Cheap a must buy for the laptop user who need good music.
WARNING this does not work with Vista September 18, 2008
S. Haskins
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
There is a lag with the sound in Vista when using 5.1. Creative are aware of this, but have not responded or given any indication when it will be resolved. Check the Creative user forum before buying this product.
hmmm September 8, 2008
J. Rudolph (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Right im using this on my Sony Vaio VGN-FZ21M laptop.
This laptop had 2 ports on the soundcard one being microphone and one being headphones. So i bought this external soundcard. My Dolby 5.1 surround sound speaker system has 3 x 3.5mm jacks subwoofer, front and rear. This external soundcard yeh it has ports for them but im not sure if this is hardware of software related but the subwoofer sounds absolutley rubbish for music games and movies using this thing...
Its only now that ive swapped rear speakers and subwoofer ports it sounds relativly good. But then thats surround sound screwed up.
If you use the subwoofer in all the correct labelled ports all your sub would do is grumble or will stay totally silent. Theres only so much of fidderling with the EQ and volume and frequencies with the software. Its taken me about 2 hours to try and set this up and it still sounds awful. I may as well just buy a damn amplifier and plug that up.
Well after finding out i cant use my 360 through it either im just going to send it back if i can. Its not worth 40.01 it should be free. Probably the worst thing ive ever purchased thats made by creative.
Excellent October 5, 2008
Z.H.F (England, UK)
Bought this last week, arrived 4 days after by royal mail. I am running Vista on my laptop with this kit. Initially I had a little problem how to set it up, but I followed the install CD, updated all the software online and then disabled my on board speaker output. The sounds is good from all of my speakers. Definitely worth the money!!
One thing is that the remote only works with the Creative Entertainment centre (which is like the Windows Vista one), (functions like play pause next etc) except volume up and down, mute, crystalliser and the 3d setting which i dont know really how its works.
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