 Great device! |
| Review Date: August 31, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Chapulin Colorado, Altamonte Springs, FL |
| This is a great device, and I'm satisfied with my purchase. I use it in a Mac running Snow Leopard; sometimes the device is unresponsive after a wake up the computer from "sleep mode"; I'm not sure if the cause of the issue is the computer or the device, however this doesn't really happen that often. |
Great Product
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| Review Date: August 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Stephen Huang, California, USA |
| If you're looking for a great usb sound adapter/card, look no further. This product works perfectly, and produces GREAT sound, especially apparent in music. The "x-fi crystalizer" actually does give music a noticeable difference in sound; the bass has more punch, and the mids and highs aren't muddled. The "x-fi cmss-3d" feature, however, does not really add a surround sound experience, but is actually more distracting than beneficial. Both features can be turned off if necessary. The knob controls the master volume of your computer, and changes the volume level by two percent a click. Plugging in headphones or a mic couldn't be easier- just plug it into the front and the input/output defaults to the headphone/mic ports. Set-up is also a breeze, just plug and play. I am currently using it on a windows 7 computer and I have no complaints. Great product! |
Easy to install, good sound quality, works well on Ubuntu
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| Review Date: July 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Bhupinder Singh, India |
| The product is easy to install on both Windows and Ubuntu. I was initially worried about compatibility with Ubuntu but it is actually easier to install as no extra drivers are required and the sound card is automatically recognized by the system. The sound quality is very good, and I could not have gotten anything better at this price. |
One of my best investment
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| Review Date: July 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Dan InGold, Boston, MA |
| I really love this idea and this thing. It works flawlessly with my iphone and an USB charger on my car. My dad thought I upgraded the speaker on my car when he listened to the music from my iphone. I also brought it to my work hooked up to my laptop. I just want to bring it everywhere. Thanks Creative for this wonderful product. It makes listening to music more fun than before. |
Just what I need, performance exceed expectation
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| Review Date: July 15, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Brian Tracy, |
Got it on sale by Creative on Amazon for twenty bucks.
I have a dell laptop on a Logitech laptop stand which blocks audio out port. So I have always wanted a USB sound card. I figure to gave this a try. I never believed their marketing or expected this to be a audiophile level equipment before purchase. I am very picky when it comes to performance of audio devices. I look for dynamic bass and detailed high frequency, not excessive high or low mid range. I even had to add a pair of tweeters to my logitech z2300 speakers because I can't stand the sound coming out of it lacing so much high frequency.
When XMOD arrived, I connect to pc without hassle. Then I tried the sound output on Z-2300 modified with additional Dayton tweeter. Regular output on 198bit bit ripped mp3 sounds normal, crystallizer does work when on, but high frequency comes off pretty harsh since z2300 already had tweeters, but I can see the sound card can improve sound of speaker system without tweeters. Then I tried Sennheiser HD202 headphones. The crystallizer does improve sound a lot, if you had after market car audio equipment, I think of it as the "loud" button. I gave creative credit making it in such a way brings out details in the music without setbacks of software EQ which I feel always comes out less dynamic. I think of it just an equalizer that adds a bit high and bass, but it does make all my regular MP3 sounds pretty good, including Pandora, which comes out pretty flat without crystallizer.
A lot of people say try winamp's EQ. I have never used winamp's software EQ, but I always tried with Windows Media player's EQ, VLC's EQ, desktop's motherboard (realteck)'s EQ, ipod's EQ, the software equalizer just doesn't do it for me, it always lacks dynamic, doesn't sound good. The crystallizer effect on XMOD actually sounds good.
I'm not a fan of the 3D effect.
I observed no hissing at all neither from speaker or headphone. Given I have XMOD connected to a logitech powered USB hub which is connect to my laptop, if you have hissing, try to change AC adapter, I know some cheap ones would create AC ripple in the DC output so it can increase the background noise.
When it comes to music everyone has their own taste, but since I'm pretty picky and I have nothing to complain about the already excellent sound quality with crystallizer on, and very good build quality, and it is just the device I needed. I gave it 5 out of 5. |
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Creative Labs Xmod USB Sound Card for PC & Mac
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