Overview of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1

To help out the poor notebooks with their sound cards creative has produced external USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1. The sound blaster is highly portable and is powered off the USB connection. It contains a good quality analog converter and integrated X-Fi and EAX technology support. It features a large dial for volume adjuster. there is also quite extensive connectivity. The X-Fi Surround 5.1 can output sound to 5.1, 4.1 surround and 2.0/2.1 stereo speaker systems. This product also has a headphone jack, and two line-level jacks for microphone and other recording usage.

Unfortunately I'm disappointed that it doesn't support Mac OS X. When used as an external DAC, the X-Fi produces an increase of audio quality. Setup is easily accomplished through plug-and-play drivers. X-Fi Crystallizer technology is an equaliser, designed to improve the sound of compressed audio formats by restoring some of the higher frequencies of audio that are usually lost in the compression format process. Overall I recommend it to all notebook users who wants something more of their notebook. I think it is a good product and that any notebook user I guess, will be happy with it. I rate this product 7/10 mainly because it doesn't support the mac's. The price is about $120- 150. Damian Gaslawski...signing off.