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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The x4 has all the features i need, optical out and a great headphone dac at a way cheaper price than the ae-9. Talkback volume is now adjustable independent of mic volume via the software. Works great and they finally updated the creative app, which ...  Read More

The sound quality is excellent for gaming, music, and video. Bass sounds tighter and the piano in the doors riders on the storm has a crisper sound. Crystalization and smart volume definitely helps with clarity for low resolution audio like mp3, stand...  Read More

The sound can be customized in countless ways. It's easy to use once you figure out the * and dial. It has far greater capabilities than i'm using now.



Cons

The x3 seems to gain 2 bugs for every 1 you fix, and i hear the new model has similar issues. It is not compatible with the soundblaster command center software. This is a huge problem for the external sound card which costs $120, because even the int...  Read More

Good for gaming not for surround in the headphones while watching movies, tv, music. All settings are just overly bass heavy if you use a sub.

It only works with something new shiny thing creatively known as the creative app. The software they make you use is also junk too. The creative app for windows is not as bad, but it's not saying much.

It's very frustrating, especially for the price point. It’s almost impossible to like it when they charge this much for this garbage. But they keep over promising and underdelivering.

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Quality


Overall a huge improvement in sound quality over built in sound on my motherboard


I got this for my son who needed to be able to listen to high quality sound and its exactly what he got from this devise


This product works really well with a good pair of headphones


I do not hear too much music so i cannot determine what the quality output is on this

Competitiveness


Connect creative soundblaster x4 to any pc or laptop via usb cable and to audiovideo receiver via spdif cable that all i need ...  Read More


It not only brought new life and better surround sound to my existing z5500 speakers it also has done an awesome job with my be...  Read More


Coming from a steelseries arctis 7 headset with gg this software seems not up to date with the competition


Eventually highend motherboards started to include 7

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    creative, great, quality, good and set.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 42.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 870 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 25 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It lifts the sound of anything you put through it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You can run it from a console or pc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The mode i really like is the purple mode for games with xfi


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Definitely recommend this over the x3 and its only an extra 10 bucks


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It does not tend to overheat unlike g5 and actually stays cool


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sound is good but the software is buggy


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sometimes the mic dont work or freezes my system


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Smartcomms doesnt seem as reliable as i had hoped

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