Whether you’re a laptop user who’s fed up with the basic audio being pumped out by your machine, or a desktop owner with a lackluster sound card installed, this USB-based external solution is aimed at you. Creative has simply designed it to enhance the sound quality of music, games, and movies. Oh, and there are a fair few recording functions in there too, which producers and muso types will like.Billed by Creative as a “premium audio system for music playback and recording”, the USB Sound Blaster Digital Music SX offers a range of input and output connections for connecting all kinds of external audio devices, and it can even act as a pre-amp when your PC isn’t turned on.
With its 24-bit 96kHz audio quality and signal-to-noise ratio of 110dB, you can expect crystal clear sound quality (as by now we’ve come to expect from Creative’s kit). Should you want to record sound, WAV, MP3 and WMA formats are supported – just connect your tape recorder, MD player and LPs to the box using the SX’s RCA Line-in or Optical-in connections). The SX also serves to add Creative Multi Speaker Surround (CMSS) 3D sound to whatever audio you’re outputting.Additionally, EAX Advanced HD capability provides a chunky bass sound, SVM helps match volume across your tracks, while EAX Effects help bring your music an acoustic feel. On the software side, a whole host of stuff is included; Creative’s ‘Entertainment Center’ for example is kind of a ‘XP Media Center Lite’.
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