SoundBlaster X-Fi is a series of sound cards designed and manufactured by Creative Technologies for streaming music in high quality audio. This series comes in PCI, PCI-E and USB models which vary according to the product.The Active Modal Architecture feature enables the user to choose the optimization modes for gaming, entertainment and creation.
Features and Functions
The SoundBlaster X-Fi series provides the 24 bit crystalizer feature whose function is stated as "restore portions of the sound which were lost during compression" by the manufacturer. X-Fi operates at 400MHz and contains 51 million transistors which provides 10,000 million instructions per second.
Reviews
The most highly touted is the 24-bit Crystallizer, a digital-processing technique that improves the quality of digital music to near that of the original master recording. - CNET Staff http://reviews.cnet.com/sound-cards/creative-sound-blaster-x/4505-9334_7-31484387.html?tag=mncol;lst
While the sound quality is extremely high, the proper development of the accompanying software seems like a logical step to make now, so that this quality could be really put to good use. - Xbit Labs http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/creative-soundblaster-xfi_11.html#sect0
In fact, the card's strong performance in our gaming and listening tests, its low CPU utilization, and the X-Fi architecture's considerable potential warrants an Editor's Choice award. - Tech Report http://techreport.com/articles.x/8884/22
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