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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card harnesses the full power of the Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio processor to Upgrade any existing library of MP3 or any music files to the Xtreme Fidelity audio standard. With the X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 24-bit Crystalizer, MP3 music and movies are converted to Xtreme Fidelity, which delivers an experience beyond the original CD or DVD recordings. With the included Creative MediaSource 3 software suite, users can easily SuperRip all their digital music permanently to Xtreme Fidelity. In addition, MediaSource 3 also allows users to further enhance their music content with single-click access to rich features like X-Fi CMSS-3D, Smart Cross-Fade and Smart Volume Management. The Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card plays back audio with rich 109dB SNR quality. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 14.57 inches | | Product Width: | 3.03 inches | | Product Height: | 9.25 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.64 pounds | | Package Length: | 14.6 inches | | Package Width: | 9.3 inches | | Package Height: | 3.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 43 reviews |
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| | Features | Delivers clear, crisp music playback and surround sound over headphones or multichannel speakers24-bit X-Fi Crystallizer enhances MP3s and movies to sound better than they do on their original CD or DVDUtilizes a 2-step quality enhancement process to process and then remaster your audios for optimal soundModular architecture optimizes performance with dedicated modes for music, gaming and audio creationYour music will sound cleaner, and high-action movie scenes will seem more realistic than ever
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 Eargasm Nov 13, 2009
Upgrading from an add-on SupremeFX, aka onboard graphics but not onboard, the difference was like night and day. I was amazed at how wonderful all my songs were after installing this card. Package was brand new, no dents or anything, even for B-stock. Best purchase I've made so far. For $40, the value is awesome.
Great...if you need it for high-end sound via the PC Aug 28, 2008
Beware of people giving this card a 1 star because of microphone/speaker conflicts...To run a mic and speakers, just plug your speakers in the analog jack and the mic in the mic jack. Done.
This card has proven invaluable to producing high-end sound through my PC. I sold my preamp and CD-player and can hook up my 460W amp directly to the computer and power a set of speakers marvelously. I found that it works best this way, and not with a preamp. If you have a high quality amp you won't need all the bells and whistles of this sound card to get the right sound from your musical recordings (MP3 or CD/DVD). If your amp is weak, however, you will find all the extras of this card very helpful/useful to tweak the sound to your liking. Or, if you have a poorly recorded MP3 you can greatly increase it's sound quality by adjusting some of the sound card's optional enhancer functions.
This sound card basically will turn your PC into a preamp/cd/dvd player with high-end results. It has lots of functions for recording, playback, equalizer settings, crystalizer, bass-booster, smart-volume management, EAX effect-- soundstaging, surround functions, digital playback functions, and so on. I'm very happy with this card and have had no negative issues with it at all, owning it for over a year now and using it daily.
On a down point, I see they are up in price to $249. I paid $100 at Staples for mine with the purchase of a new PC. Also, Creative has been very helpful in sending me a proper Vista-install CD for this soundcard, since the original install-CD was not meant for Vista.
Conclusion: If you want to play your music through your PC, get this card! The sound quality is outstanding and the options for tweaking the sound to your liking are numerous.
Cheers.
 No drivers Jun 06, 2008
Card will not work with Vista x64 and 4+ Gigs of RAM. Creative has still not released drivers to address this. I highly recommend buying audio cards from a different vendor.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Beware! X-Fi cards conflict with higher-end devices. Jan 09, 2008
I've been using Creative sound cards as long as I can remember, so it's quite a shock to discover that several problems are being reported with Creative's "X-Fi" line of sound cards. Google "x-fi problem" and you'll see what I mean. This card worked flawlessly for me on Windows XP, but as soon as I clean-installed Vista, annoying "crackling" sounds occur every time I do something graphically, such as scrolling a window. Without getting too technical, the problem appears to be that the sound card cannot get frequent enough access to the PCI bus in order to maintain a smooth stream of sound data. (If sound were water, the stream is not always flowing.) As a result, sound cuts out, pops, and crackles.
The crackling issue can be worked around by reducing the load on the PCI bus. For example, removing my 3D drivers for my graphics card works around the issue, but at the cost of crippling graphics performance. This applies to both nVidia and ATI graphics cards. Other devices such as RAID drives, however, can't just be turned off like that.
To Creative's credit, the core of the problem seems to be a limitation of the PCI bus technology, not the sound card. If that's true, then people may have to drop PCI sound cards entirely in favor of another sound medium such as HDMI, which newer graphics cards are beginning to support. Since I'm no hardware engineer, I can only guess this would work, and this is the route I'll soon take.
So, if your computer does *not* use high-end graphics cards or RAID hard drives, you could still get excellent sound and music from the X-Fi XtremeMusic and other X-Fi cards. If you're a high-end user, however, keep your receipt handy. Since Windows Vista "Aero" makes use of 3D acceleration, this can aggravate sound issues. Using Windows XP will increase the liklihood of excellent sound quality.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Waste of money Nov 26, 2007
If you have Vista or plan on upgrading in the future JUST DONT BUY this card. It has been a complete waste of money for me. It is not even remotely compatible with vista, just do an internet search with vista xfi xtreme music problems. I'm into computers and haven't been able to make their drivers for vista work since may 2007 when I bought the card like many others as you will see if you do the search. Good luck choosing a good card!
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