At first glance, the big difference between the Outlier Free+ and the Outlier Pro+ is that the former has an IPX5 rating which makes it definitely sweat proof while the latter has…
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It feels like gaming headsets have all but displaced PC speakers on the market. You can still grab a 2.1, 5.1 or even 7.1 system but the chances are that the kit…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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