Product Description

Sound Cards

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4210 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Creative Labs
• Model: 70SB110000002
• Released on: 2008-09-09
• Platform: Windows XP
• Dimensions: 2.56" h x 7.87" w x 8.46" l, 1.10 pounds

Features

• Sound Blaster X-Fi Go!

Manufacturer's Description

The power of Sound Blaster X-Fi in the palm of your hand
Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! brings incredible gaming audio to any computer, anywhere! Designed just like a USB stick it plugs into a PC to bring you incredible X-Fi headphone surround and maximum realism, thanks to its EAX Advanced HD support. Its 1GB memory stores the installation software and lets you save your game settings and levels. Ideal for LAN parties, it supports hundreds of titles under Windows XP and Vista - and even fits on your key ring for maximum portability! The Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! is the fast and easy upgrade to Xtreme Fidelity.

X-Fi - The sound of gaming
Let audio be a key element in your game strategy. Take in accurate and precise positional 3D audio over your headphones when deep in battle.

Clear voice chats
Prepare your team for the ultimate showdown. Let every order come through loud and clear. Choose from over 18 different effects and disguise your voice, morph into someone else with our latest VoiceFX feature and hide from the enemy!

No installation CD required
All the drivers you need for a complete Sound Blaster experience are in the Sound Blaster X-Fi Go!

Perfect for music and movies too
Make all your music sound better with Xtreme Fidelity audio technology which restores the detail and clarity to compressed music files like MP3s. Most downloadable music and movies are compressed, making downloads fast, and storage and portability convenient. However, the quality and fullness of these songs and soundtracks are diminished - resulting in flat and lifeless audio. The X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrancy to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced, ensuring you hear everything in crystal clear clarity.

Realistic gameplay
Experience realistic sound effects and 3D surround that make you feel like you're in the game itself. Over 400 existing games use Creative EAX® ADVANCED HD™ sound effects to provide better gaming sound.

Creative ALchemy
Creative ALchemy restores X-Fi enhanced surround sound effects for great gaming. It provides multi-channel audio for legacy game titles running on Windows Vista™. Vista deals with audio in a different way to XP, and as a result certain legacy game titles, that use EAX or DirectSound3D (DS3D), can result in stereo output without any effects. Creative ALchemy is a powerful tool that restores the audio for a DirectSound3D game running on Windows Vista to its former glory - in full surround sound with hardware accelerated audio mixing, sampling rate conversion and EAX effects.

Personalised gaming on the go
The 1GB¹ flash memory lets you transport your custom gaming profiles, plug-ins, add-ons or any other files easily. Don't lose that important file! Read/write protection is also incorporated to prevent your files from being accidentally deleted.

Exclusive Bonus Software for Download
Creative WaveStudio (available through online download) provides convenient and easy audio editing, applying special effects and audio clean-up function for recorded music files, lectures and podcasts. Creative Karaoke Player (available through online download) with LRC format support, allows users to sing along with their favorite songs using Pitch Shifter function and Reverb effect.

¹ 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. Available capacity will be less. Reported capacity will vary.

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Customer Reviews

Marvelous Device!
It's an easy to use and great sounding device. I was looking for something that sounds great but in a small form factor for portability. The portability and sound quality cannot be matched. It almost sounds as good as the desktop Fatality version I own. It also carries with it 1GB of storage and the software installed on my Toshiba Vista laptop and was ready to go in seconds. I don't need more channels than the two stereo ones because I bought it for listening to music and watch TV shows so I am quite happy. It includes a USB extension cable preventing breakage in the USB socket when you accidentally tilt your laptop. It also comes with not bad sounding earbud headset with a mic.

Creative X Fi Go!
2 Main reasons for buying this portable soundcard from Creative.

1.) My laptop's headphone jack is weirdly placed on the front, in line with the touch pad. Inconvenient to say the least! With the massive connector of the HD 595 from Sennheiser it was extremely uncomfortable.

2.) The "Realtek High Definition Audio" sound card sounded dreadful and crackled all the time.

Anyway, the device is very small and functions perfectly, producing high quality sound whether it be YouTube, MP3s or Movies. Software included allows you to toy about with the settings and add effects etc. It has 1GB of storage and the software set up only actually takes 136MB, leaving you the rest to store whatever you desire. A handy lock switch to prevent files from being deleted is located on the right hand of the device.

Looks are excellent as well, a small white X Fi light springs into life when the device is in use, and flashes when you mute the soundcard.

Included Software:

Creative Alchemy: Research this online, it's mainly for games and has apparently won awards.

Creative Audio Control Panel: Clue is in the title, allows you play with the settings pretty easily, as does Creative Console Launcher but with a much more pleasant interface.

Creative Software Update: Updates for drivers/firmware and additional software such as Creative MediaSource 5 Player/Organizer.

Creative System Information: Basically sends all sorts of info to Creative to help with you whatever problems you may he having.

Product Registration - Again, clue is in the title, send as little or as much info as you which.

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Brilliant sound
I initially bought this because my voice recognition software refused to recognise the onboard sound card on my computer, but it turns out I can't use it for that purpose because recognition is not good enough, the test dictation I did came out as "in in in in in in he in in in..."! But I completely understand that voice recognition software has very specific mic requirements, and this product is not designed for that purpose anyway, so that's definitely not a criticism of the X-Fi Go. However I have found another good use for it; my skype phone stopped working when I got a new PC running Vista (no driver, mutter mutter) but the X-Fi Go provides extremely good sound quality. I have also found it very useful for listening to my foreign language learning materials on ITunes, I pick up words I would previously have missed. It could not be more easy to install and use, the headphones are effective and comfortable, and the sound is just brilliant.