Creative soundcard users.....SIC

[royfrosty]

I still waiting for US$100 for X-fi titanium hd...



Which xonar you refering to?



I know ZxR can change opamp... what about x-fi titanium hd?

Overall x-fi titanium hd is more on gaming?

The Xonar Phoebus & DGX sounds weird on my Infinity speakers.

Only the Essence STX could be on par with the thd.

EDIT: http://sg.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-x-fi-titanium-hd

Yes THD can change op amp

 

[coyote]

Thing with Creative is that, today when you buy it at S$199 for a driver with today's OS, eg. Win8. Sure no problem one. 3 years later when they come out with Windows 9 or Windows 10. You will find that Creative may no longer produce drivers for your S$199 sound card today. And you wanted to upgrade to Windows 9 or 10, then how? LL junk away a once S$199 sound card lo...

Just got a Titaniunmm-HD from Cybermind for $199....i was shocked at how small sized the drivers and software package is....no ugly huge skins to be found, very small app that loads fast and stable even in win8.

Who say Creative drivers sucks?

The headphone wise sounds a bit flat compare to the old Azuntech Prelude...some call it more netural?

 

[tUx]

Just got a Titaniunmm-HD from Cybermind for $199....i was shocked at how small sized the drivers and software package is....no ugly huge skins to be found, very small app that loads fast and stable even in win8.

Who say Creative drivers sucks?

The headphone wise sounds a bit flat compare to the old Azuntech Prelude...some call it more netural?

Enjoy your Titanium HD!

I've been using Creative sound cards for more than ten years and have no issues with any of their drivers.

 

[Ark Law]

Thanks for the heads up... i wondered at that time why they stated the old price for x-fi and not for z series... den realise that there wasnt any sale for them... they put the sign for fun nia, make it look like it is on sale as well..

People who never do their homework/rare shopper will really think it's a sale and it's worth it, so they hoot lor. And at the "sale" venue, they'd just bloat up the U.P. much higher than the actual MSRP

 

[jtjt00]

Creative released driver for win 8 in Jan 2013 while MS released win 8 in Oct 2012. The beta driver was buggy, after restart no sound.

Are you sure???

My Sound Blaster Digital Music Premium HD still can download win 8 drivers and stuffs.

 

[royfrosty]

Creative released driver for win 8 in Jan 2013 while MS released win 8 in Oct 2012. The beta driver was buggy, after restart no sound.

You already said "beta" of cause lah.

 

[shadow84]

People who never do their homework/rare shopper will really think it's a sale and it's worth it, so they hoot lor. And at the "sale" venue, they'd just bloat up the U.P. much higher than the actual MSRP

What i meant was i know Creative had a sale, but i didnt know what were the prices. I only know that x-fi titanium was discounted, and the Z series were not. But, i didnt know about their prices from SLS as i may b targetting the Blaster Z frm amazon itself.

 

[DeadandBuried]

Thing with Creative is that, today when you buy it at S$199 for a driver with today's OS, eg. Win8. Sure no problem one. 3 years later when they come out with Windows 9 or Windows 10. You will find that Creative may no longer produce drivers for your S$199 sound card today. And you wanted to upgrade to Windows 9 or 10, then how? LL junk away a once S$199 sound card lo...

I still remember the Audigy debacle, where they disabled features going from WinXP to Vista, claiming that the card couldn't support. Turns out it was disabled in drivers, and if you hacked the drivers, you can enable X-Fi-like features on the Audigy. The rumour was the features in question were licensed to XP only, and Creative didn't want to relicense them for Vista.

This really turned me off because I had 2 Audigy cards at the time.

 

[AS1]

My ears spoiled liao. Onboard audio + Soundbar good enough for me.

 

[Illusionist_85]

Cybermind selling Zxr for 299 le.

 

[shadow84]

Lowest for ZxR is Infinity @ SLS @ $295

 

[royfrosty]

Actually if you all dont mind travelling to jurong ibp creative sometimes they have in house promo. Can drop there and see.

 

[86technie]

Actually if you all dont mind travelling to jurong ibp creative sometimes they have in house promo. Can drop there and see.

Their HQ shop has closed not long ago, now if you wanna buy
have to either go marina square or retailers.

 

[royfrosty]

Their HQ shop has closed not long ago, now if you wanna buy
have to either go marina square or retailers.

You sure? Their retailers at ms or other retailers have no affilation to them when i was working there a few years ago.

Surprised?

Anw. Since i worked at ibp i would drop by and see. Cause i remember that that store over there belongs directly from creative itself.

 

[shadow84]

Isnt the Marina Square store a concept store from Creative?

 

[ahbard]

Lowest for ZxR is Infinity @ SLS @ $295

got mine for $175 USD from amazon with free shipping.

 

[royfrosty]

Isnt the Marina Square store a concept store from Creative?

Surprised right? Actually it is not by them. Is an exclusive reseller using creative name to open a store at ms.

 

[shadow84]

got mine for $175 USD from amazon with free shipping.

lol.. still waiting for either x-fi titanium hd or zxr to reach low points... btw, the zxr is for gaming? the same goes for x-fi as well? and the stx is more for music?

 

[ragnarok95]

lol.. still waiting for either x-fi titanium hd or zxr to reach low points... btw, the zxr is for gaming? the same goes for x-fi as well? and the stx is more for music?

ZxR is the highest range of their soundcards. Good for PC gaming + entertainment.

X-fi is a range of cards. But if you want to go for gaming, can get their X-fi fatal1ty gaming soundcard.

 

[shadow84]

ZxR is the highest range of their soundcards. Good for PC gaming + entertainment.

X-fi is a range of cards. But if you want to go for gaming, can get their X-fi fatal1ty gaming soundcard.

Read on head-fi that that wasnt that good.. creative's true gamign card was the x-fi.. and for some, zxr has taken over its spot..