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Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review

Date: 2006-1-14

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   October 2005 was remembered due to a remarkable announcement made by Creative Labs on the 7th day of the month: they proudly launched the new SoundBlaster X-Fi sound card. In our curren...

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Performance in SpecraLAB

The second part of our today?s test session includes sound purity evaluation with the help of the SpectraLAB utility (version 4.32.17), which is none other but a FFT spectrum analyzer. This utility is shareware coming with a limited license for 30 days. You can download it from this site .

I explained the testing methodology in my previous articles, which you can find in our Multimedia section . During the tests I did my best to comply with Creative?s recommendations concerning sound card testing. The results below refer to the LineIn ?LineOut1 circuit.

Here are the spectrograms for Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS:

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review

44,100Hz/16bit

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review

Determining IMD at 44,100Hz/16bit

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review

48,000Hz/16bit

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review

Determining IMD at 48,000Hz/16bit

For more information here is a side-by-side comparison against SoundBlaster Audigy 4 Pro:

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Sound Card Family Review


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