Creative Labs SB1090 USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Audio System

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• X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies.
• Slip on your headphones and X-Fi CMSS-3D technology moves the sound away from your ears and into the space around you.
• Expand your stereo music and movies into surround sound with X-Fi CMSS-3D technology. Voices are centered in front of you.
• Realistic sound effects in games Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room.
• Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software

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About This Product

Adding the USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 sound card is the easiest way to make your music and movies sound their best. It includes PowerDVD software via a free download.

Customer Reviews

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• Review: Few years ago I bought a used creative Sound Blaster Live! PCI sound card for my desktop for the price of 8 dollars because my computer's built in sound card was awful since then I never thought of any other sound cards other than creative. The mic can catch your voice 20 yards away from it and the voice it records is crystal clear. Creative rules. The installation is easy just need to go to the creative website driver's page and select your operating system and download all the software available for your Operating System and enjoy the vision of sound.
  My laptop's operating system is Windows 7 x64 Home Premium.
  Thanks creative for making great sound cards.
  

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• Good sound card

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• Review: I bought this a couple of months ago, and so far it has been performing without an issue. I have it hooked up onto a Z5500 Logitech system and I must say the sound quality is awesome.

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• Great if you scrap the software

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• Review: Pros: Soundcard is fantastic
  Cons: Software is dog bleep.
  
  I just plugged this into the USB and it worked like a charm. I have a Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit computer hooked through my home theater and a 42 inch Vizio and it sounds better than a movie theater. When you initially install the soundcard, just let it go out and find the Microsoft drivers and you'll be good. The initial mistake I made was downloading the software that came with this. After I did, there was a serious delay between the video and audio, which was due to adding the creative drivers (which are crap!) I also had computer issues which I later discovered were due to drivers. I also had an issue with my restore point so I had to uninstall all the crap from the CD-ROM and the updates from the Creative website. I did keep PowerDVD 9 though, it works very well for watching movies.
  Bottom Line: keep the hardware, lose the software.

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• Lots of Clipping, Terrible Quality Sound

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• Review: After the 3.5mm input ripped right out of my computer, I decided it was time for a new soundcard. After some brief, albeit hurried shopping, I ended up purchasing this product.
  
  At first I was excited about the ease of use! I mean, come on, USB connectivity, plug and play features, optional software, and of course, the excellence of an analog volume dial.
  
  Very cool. Right?
  
  WRONG!
  
  After three hours of updating software and configuring the card to my computer, I realized that I had dropped signal quality, even though the card is rated at 24-Bit 96000KHZ plus. Not only had I lost audio clarity, but I now had a really bad case of clipping. I mean, any excessive noise, and I would hear distortion, feedback or signal clipping. This simply would not do considering I needed this sound card for audio recording.
  
  My guess is that it makes a great addition to any laptop, or lower-end home desktop. It's functionality as a recording sound card is crappy at best. The fact that it is powered by USB would indicate that indefinitely some signal quality will be lost, so be ready for that.
  
  pros:
  -plug and play connectivity
  -software not necessary(but certainly recommended)
  -analog volume dial
  -5.1 surround
  -ASIO drivers supported
  -24 bit processing
  -comes with some neat programs(sort of)
  
  cons:
  -software installation and update takes forever
  -usb powered, resulting in signal degeneration
  -audio clipping and interference
  -not recommended for audio recording
  -not recommended for high quality audio processing
  -the crystalizer and 3-D sound capabitlies are questionable at best
  
  Ultimately I had to return it because I recieved a distinct decrease in playback and recording quality. Although it processed music and computer sounds well enough, any sound card should (seeing as that's what they are engineered to do). My recommendation, great for laptops with crappy onboard sound but not for home or studio use!

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• It stop working after a year

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• Review: used for one year and stop working after one year. will never buy creative product again, its not first and only equip i bought for this brand.

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