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…
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There Is A New Mobile DAC/Amp From Creative, The Sound Blaster X1
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…
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Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2 Gaming Soundbar Review
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,…
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The New Creative Soundbar Is Open, Listen To The Stage 360 2.1 With Dolby Atmos
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…
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The Sound Blaster X4 Arrives On Stage
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 MorePC Perspective Podcast #549 – Ryzen 3700X & 3900X Review, Radeon RX 5700 XT, RTX Super
Join us this week for the highly anticipated Ryzen 3700X and 3900X review, Radeon RX 5700 XT review, a look at NVIDIA’s new “Super” cards, the latest news, and more! Our sponsor this…
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Creative Celebrates 30 Years of Sound Blaster with New AE-9 and AE-7 Sound Cards
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…
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No audio jack, eh? A Creative way to use your phones USB-C port
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…
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We need a longer name! Creative’s Sound BlasterX Vanguard K08 Keyboard
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…
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Another Video About the Early Days of PC Audio
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...
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Creative Labs Announces Sound Blaster E1 and E3
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...
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Creative’s talented wireless speaker/micrphone/recharger beer can thing
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…
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Sound Blaster, eh? That name sort of rings a bell.
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…
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No, Creative’s new sound card does not go over 9000
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...
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Now Intel owns 3DLabs and they may be making better mobiles with them
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…
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Creative’s new SoundCore3D chipset and Recon3D line analyzed
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…
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Boost the audio performance of your laptop with Creative’s new USB DAC
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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