This is a Reviews & measurements of the SoundBlaster X-FI HD DAC/ADC và tai nghe amplifier. It is on kind loan from a member and it retails for USD $100 from Amazon with Prime shipping.The box itself is plastic but doesn"t look too bad:
Excessive harmonic distortion pushes the distortion specs to lớn merely "OK." Reducing the digital cấp độ improved the situation by just a dB or two. Here is how the SINAD (signal over distortion và noise) rates compared to lớn recently reviewed gear:
We start-off OK but then distortion sets in at just 1 milliwatt of power. Max power is a weak 13 milliwatts.Switching to lớn 33 ohm load did not improve the picture:
Distortion takes over now at just 0.1 milliwatts & max power before clipping is just 25 milliwatts. Worst news was still khổng lồ come in the size of headphone output impedance:
At 36 ohm, the frequency response và hence the balance of tones will be impacted by SoundBlaster X-FI HD. We lượt thích to lớn see 1 ohm or lower here to lớn avoid this effect.Instead of torturing myself or you all I decided to chạy thử the ADC but that was not meant to be. The Soundblaster driver reported that line in & microphone in were not operational. Selecting the ASIO driver as input đầu vào just hug my Audio Precision software or did nothing useful. Oh well.ConclusionsSeems Creative is still sailing on the reputation of their PC audio products from decades baông xã with no effort lớn produce a high-performance device. While the DAC portion is OK, the tai nghe output is a disaster. And who knows why the ADC doesn"t work. Needless to lớn say the pink panther is not happy and I can"t recommover the SoundBlaster X-FI HD.------------As always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are welcome.They say you should save money for a rainy day. It rains for about 6 months here so I need plenty of money!!! Please consider donating funds using:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trungvietlaptop.com), orupgrading your membership here though Paypal (https://audioscienceđánh giá.com/foru...eview-and-measurements.2164/page-3#post-59054).
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Excessive harmonic distortion pushes the distortion specs to lớn merely "OK." Reducing the digital cấp độ improved the situation by just a dB or two. Here is how the SINAD (signal over distortion và noise) rates compared to lớn recently reviewed gear:
We start-off OK but then distortion sets in at just 1 milliwatt of power. Max power is a weak 13 milliwatts.Switching to lớn 33 ohm load did not improve the picture:
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Distortion takes over now at just 0.1 milliwatts & max power before clipping is just 25 milliwatts. Worst news was still khổng lồ come in the size of headphone output impedance:
At 36 ohm, the frequency response và hence the balance of tones will be impacted by SoundBlaster X-FI HD. We lượt thích to lớn see 1 ohm or lower here to lớn avoid this effect.Instead of torturing myself or you all I decided to chạy thử the ADC but that was not meant to be. The Soundblaster driver reported that line in & microphone in were not operational. Selecting the ASIO driver as input đầu vào just hug my Audio Precision software or did nothing useful. Oh well.ConclusionsSeems Creative is still sailing on the reputation of their PC audio products from decades baông xã with no effort lớn produce a high-performance device. While the DAC portion is OK, the tai nghe output is a disaster. And who knows why the ADC doesn"t work. Needless to lớn say the pink panther is not happy and I can"t recommover the SoundBlaster X-FI HD.------------As always, questions, comments, recommendations, etc. are welcome.They say you should save money for a rainy day. It rains for about 6 months here so I need plenty of money!!! Please consider donating funds using:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trungvietlaptop.com), orupgrading your membership here though Paypal (https://audioscienceđánh giá.com/foru...eview-and-measurements.2164/page-3#post-59054).
AmirFounder, Audio Science ReviewFounder, Madromãng cầu DigitalContributing Editor, Widescreen đánh giá MagazineCliông xã for My Technical BackgroundMy YouTube Channel