The X7 is scheduled for release next month, a Creative rep at IFA 2014 told me that the price will be US$399/€399. In the design department, the X7's trapezoidal prism housing sports all the right angles to be a good match for Alienware's latest Area-51 gaming computer. Rounding out connectivity options are optical S/PDIF in and out ports and RCA inputs for connection to existing sound systems, 3.5 mm and 6.3 mm headphone jacks and a 3.5 mm microphone input jack, though a built-in beamforming CrystalVoice microphone array does allow the X7 to be used as a speakerphone. Tap-to-connect wireless streaming is offered via Bluetooth 4.1 with aptX support and NFC, and support for the ASIO protocol helps keep latency during high resolution playback to a minimum. Creative Technology Ltd today announced the Sound Blaster X7, its most powerful and technologically advanced audio solution to date. It can be used as an external sound card for PC/Mac via USB 2.0, for games, music and movies (and just about everything inbetween), and select iOS/Android devices can take advantage of included USB Host connectivity. The X7 promises plug and play compatibility with computers, laptops, game consoles, tablets, smartphones and TVs, and comes with 5.1 channel surround sound courtesy of Dolby Digital decoding technology. The new X7 boasts cross-platform connectivity An SB-Axx1 multi-core DSP allows access to Creative's SBX Pro Studio audio processing suite, which includes sound enhancements technologies like SBX Crystalizer (for bringing out audio detail), SBX Bass and SBX Smart Volume (can level out sudden changes in volume). Then there's a Class D amplifier capable of delivering up 100 W of power for "amazing audio quality even by audiophile standards on passive bookshelf and tower speakers."Ĭreative has chosen a Texas Instruments 600 ohm headphone amp that's capable of driving audiophile-grade headphones, and included swappable op-amps for customizable tonality, Nichicon Fine-Gold capacitors for optimum performance and gold-plated audio connectors with impedance selection. The rather impressive list of audiophile-grade components starts with a Burr-Brown 127 dB digital-to-analog converter that supports high resolution audio up to 24-bit/192 kHz, and a Burr-Brown two-channel 123 dB analog-to-digital converter for high quality, low noise analog line-in playback and recording. It is absolutely the biggest, baddest, and boldest Sound Blaster to date." "That’s why we’ve created the Sound Blaster X7. For more details, please read the rest of this web release note. This software includes support for macOS Catalina 10.15 only. "Our goal is to allow all these users of all these platforms to enjoy the best audio in the way it’s meant to be heard, and in the way they want to hear it," says Sim Wong Hoo, CEO of Creative. This download contains the latest driver and application for use with your Sound Blaster® X7 for Mac operating systems. The new X7 boasts more features than any Sound Blaster before it, including a built-in power amp, cross-platform connectivity and intelligent audio enhancement technologies. Creative Technologies has combined its audio processing know-how with high end audiophile-grade components and specifications for a new addition to the Sound Blaster audio family that's been developed to wrap serious gamers in high resolution sonic goodness.
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