The Creative Sound Blaster X5 Is An Impressive External Soundcard
The Creative Sound Blaster X5 looks more like a high end DAC or headphone amp than your usual external soundcard, and there is a good reason for that. Inside it's 216 x…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 6, 2023 | General Tech | 2
The Creative Sound Blaster X5 looks more like a high end DAC or headphone amp than your usual external soundcard, and there is a good reason for that. Inside it's 216 x…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 17, 2022 | General Tech | 0
This is a bit of an interesting one, as you can tell from the picture. Creative is selling a new mobile DAC called the Creative Sound Blaster X1, however the specifications were…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Sep 6, 2022 | General Tech | 3
This is off topic, but I’m a vintage PC nerd. When it comes to Creative products I admit to a disproportionate number of Sound Blaster cards in my collection of old components,…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 28, 2022 | General Tech | 0
As NiKKTECH points out, a true 5.1 sound system will give you better positional audio; assuming your audio driver is behaving, than a 2.1 system with software to emulate 5.1. The problem…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 8, 2022 | General Tech | 0
Creative have refreshed their line of external DACs with the Sound Blaster X4, compatible with everything from Apple to PS4 to PCs with optical or digital 3.5mm out. It is capable of…
Read Moreby Jim Tanous | Jul 11, 2019 | General Tech | 7
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Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Jul 9, 2019 | General Tech | 4
While a retrospective on Sound Blaster and Creative's importance to the development of PC sound would not fit within a short news post, it's still pretty safe to say that as Sound…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 24, 2019 | General Tech | 5
There was a dearth of USB-C audio devices shown off at CES, with wireless connectivity and other ways of dealing with the removal of the audio jack from phones getting far more…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 7, 2017 | General Tech | 17
It seems almost a pity that the only noise this Sound BlasterX device can make is the clicking of its Omron switches, but the Aurora Reactive Lighting offers a 16.8 million shades…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 4, 2015 | General Tech | 8
About two weeks ago, we highlighted a video by “The 8-Bit Guy” about the earliest computer audio implementations. It focused on the engineering side, how a series of...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | May 15, 2014 | General Tech, Mobile | 7
Okay, so these products (SoundBlaster E1 and SoundBlaster E3) are confusing because they have several roles. Both are billed as "headphone amplifiers" with battery power. These types of products...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 28, 2014 | General Tech | 2
The Creative Sound Blaster AXX 200 is more that just a wireless speaker for your PC or smartphone, it is also a voice recorder, a hands free microphone for your smartphone and…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 23, 2013 | General Tech | 4
Ah the good old days of soundcards and assigning specific IRQs to specific PCI slots; don't you miss them? Onboard chipsets have come a long way from their roots, with full Dolby…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 29, 2013 | General Tech | 8
Why Creative chose the name Sound Blaster Z is unknown, but that is indeed the moniker attached to their new $120 PCIe sound card. As you can see from the...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 20, 2012 | General Tech, Mobile | 1
Ziilabs might not be a name you recognize now, but it is one you were likely familiar with at one time. That is the current name of 3DLabs which was purchased by…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | May 7, 2012 | General Tech | 0
The newest flagship card from Creative is the Fatal1ty branded Sound Blaster Recon3D PCIe 1x card, which is the first to feature their new SoundCore3D chipset which brings 192kHz sampling rates at…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 27, 2011 | General Tech | 2
It has become commonplace to see USB headsets that can be plugged into any system and will work without drivers needing to be installed. That has not been widely spread to actual soundcards…
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