Creative Sound BlasterX G1 7.1 Portable HD Gaming USB DAC and Sound Card (70SB171000000)

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Creative Sound BlasterX G1 7.1 Portable HD Gaming USB DAC and Sound Card (70SB171000000)

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

It's easy to use and configure the way you want it. Works on windows 10, windows 8, windows 7, mac os x and linux. Bypass the little dac chip on your motherboard and use this.

This device is among the very few that detects the apple headset connector standard. Has surround sound in both headphone, and speaker configuration.

Sound quality is soooo much better that with what came with my msi laptop! The bass hits, mids and highs are very clean and i cannot detect any distortion when increasing the volume. The digital to analog chip is critical if you are listening to full ... Read More

It's pretty good. This works beautifully! Overall really pleased. Very happy with this purchase.

Cons

The onboard sound on my motherboard just isn't that great. There's no mic port, only headphones for some reason. It's almost unusable for headphones and unusable mic. Only good use that it has is if u need to connect it on usb.

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Highlights

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Quality

Sounds quality is good no extra controls for my application

Only used it for a couple of days so far but very impressed with the sound quality

But the audio quality in general for example for music is very bad

I did not notice any improvement in sound quality

Packaging/appearance

To verify you can open the blasterx app and test the settings out

Install the blasterx first then install the configurator

The scout mode thats advertised went untested for me i couldnt get the hotkeys to work and i didnt like the sound of keeping it... Read More

Competitiveness

This one has a single long 1834 jack for a trrs left audio right audio mic ground

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This product had a total of 962 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.