A review is at http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/soundblaster-x-fi/index.x?pg=1
As per usual Creative are spinning a load of BS- they are claiming that the processing on this card can make MP3s sound better than the original CD by upsampling and bit-depth conversion. Yeah right: MP3 being lossy this means there are algorithms at work that are making up data from thin air. It's some Creative engineers idea of "sounding better".
It's not hard to make a US$110 custom designed amplifier sound better than a cheap chipset amplifer - maybe the idea is thatyou listen to the CD using your motherboard crapset audio, then plug in the creative gear and listen. hey presto!
...and then I read the article... CROCK!
The Crystaliser "Tries to simulate how an audio engineer would remix the sample". So next they'll be telling me that taking a JPG compressed image and running it through a few photoshop filters will make it better then the original uncompressed image.
Twits.
quote:Originally posted by mcdrewski
The Crystaliser "Tries to simulate how an audio engineer would remix the sample". So next they'll be telling me that taking a JPG compressed image and running it through a few photoshop filters will make it better then the original uncompressed image.
Twits.
That's Creative [:(]
Actually, the 'Crystalizer' that they refer to is just a multi-band compressor!!! How they got from there to "it makes MP3s sound better than CDs!" I dont know...