Creative X3 Review - $120 Perfection with "Super X-FI"... Is it the New CMSS 3D?
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- For a long time I have been asking Creative to bring back CMSS 3D, which last was featured on the Titanium HD Sound Card, though this time with the X3 (which is a portable USB DAC and ADC), they have introduced a different hardware processing called "Super X-Fi". We first checked this out at CES in early 2019. Though it looks like the tech is finally here, and it really is a cool piece of configurable tech to play around with to get fully immersed in your audio, it sounds a tad different to CMSS 3D, though does very similar things. I am sure with enough tuning you could get it sounding identical.
Though as for the frequency response, crosstalk and objective numbers, this DAC simply DELIVERS.
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Review of Tech YES City Video - $0 Perfection and with Super X-Fi 80s Mic!
Are you so still a fan of the super xfi? I really like it but many seem to hate it.
the 7.1 support was what got me. and really does sound amazing, most reviewers look at this for its headphone abilities, but I havent used it that way once ha
The X3 is a no-brainer purchase when you're looking for better sound, it's the best little audio gadget I've had in years, it has so many settings and features to play with plus it has Creative's new Super X-FI technology! And with "SXFI Gen2" (which comes as a free X3 firmware update for all owners) it has become even better and Creative is already working on "SXFI Gen3"! Thumbs up!
I'll add to the "you don't want to damage your ears" remark with my experiences.
In 1999 I had a small container explode 18-12" from my left ear, could only hear hi pitched static while other sounds sounded as if they where far away and underwater.
Years later I got an ear infection that made me effectively deaf in my right. While I was lucky and both time my hearing returned I'm left with a permanent low hiss. Its easily ignored with other sounds, but I need white noise to sleep or the hiss is loud enough to disturb me.
Your recent audio videos are killing it especially the charts. More reviewers need to come with objective data.
Tech Yes City in the house!
Fantastic review, i appreciate it! Just ordered one :)
Just upgraded my Creative Rx Audigy 5 into Creative X3, lovely upgrade.
Super X-Fi is building off CMSS 3-D. SUper X-Fi's is more or less the same as X-Fi's old Entertainment Mode, which is one of the better virtual surround sound convolutions out there, but they've added a few more tweaks, such as customization (an old technology they acquired from Sensaura, a British technology firm in the early 2000's).
XLR and TRS can be converted as the signals are the same.
Another brilliant PSA on hearing and audio!
That's right! It's a PSA on a Proper Sound Accessory!
Thank you for the sound comparison! I have been looking at Super X-Fi to emulate surround sound from my stereo speakers. This video proves that it’s not ideal for my use case.
I think the G6 can pass on the SBX processing to stereo speakers. I have a G6 but DO NOT have stereo speakers to test this with.
get the ASUS STX II I just use 2 stereo speakers myself. The op amps can be changed this card is just incredible. I had the Sound Blaster Titanium HD before the ASUS and there is no comparison.
@@ranbymonkeys2384 For USB I recommend Asus Xonar U7 standard windows driver and purchase Dolby access from Microsoft store sound incredible.
@@mariuszfuchs2010 I don't use usb or windows u want to hear great use linux blows windows out of the water don't believe me make a live usb and try it it wont medd up your windows install
Yes i have Linux mint im afraid the is no support for virtual surround sound and standard is 16 bit 44 kHz.
Back around 2003 I had an Audigy 2 Sound Blaster card with decent Creative speakers.
Honestly the software was a little bit buggy but the sound it put out was amazing and it used to blow my friends away as nobody really used a PC as a sound system back then.
I haven't used a dedicated sound card for years now but if you go down that route the results are awesome
Really impressed with creative Labs products lately.
Easy way to get better sound. Looks great. In 2008 I had dedicated souncard with built in decoding, lot's of cables since one cable for every channel. Of course I could use optical out to my receiver but it felt pointless.
On a side note - If youre serious about home audio and already have compatible speakers $100-120USD would probably buy you a pretty good secondhand AV receiver. Yes they are 10x the size of the X3 but the added bonus is that you can hook a lot more stuff up, can stream music via wifi/bluetooth, has FM/AM and net radio and the quality of the sound will leave the X3 in the dirt providing you got decent speakers. Obviously you wont get the fancy 3D audio gaming related features that Creative has to offer on their products but you will get a super high quality sound system that rivals that of cinemas if set up correctly with good speakers to match....
Even if you dont and you just hook it up with expensive bookshelf speakers from an old hifi unit you found in the shed. It should still sound pretty good. Apart from my subwoofer. my entire setup i bought pre-owned and that saved me a tonne of money.
do those $120 used AV receivers have USB digital audio input ? because of not, you are still running it off of crappy onboard audio and I don't see how that can sound better than the X3, also the X3 can still be hooked up to a receiver.
@@JoeGP no. No digital USB input but digital HDMI input
a bit weird to buy this for headphone use only since the main benefit of this is as an external 5.1/7.1 dac which are 100 times rarer than headphone dacs. And since you didn't focus on that in the video I didn't get an answer to the question 'Can I get sound in all my speakers if I play audio from my browser (like from youtube) which only outputs stereo ?'
I have recently purchased and installed an Evga Nu Audio Pro......i regret nothing!
Can confirm watching this video on a certified Dolby amp and a 5.2 setup, the Surround setting was much better than I ever thought it would be.
Just watched your review! Thanks for sharing, I have a question regarding the Mic monitoring feature - Can you still use it if you use other mic source i.e. Mic connected tru the USB? I was wondering if the Sidetone/Mic monitoring feature only works with microphone directly plug in to the X3's mic input. Hope to get your feedback. Thank you!
Tech Yes City Accessories :D...
Gotta love your review besides your project :D
I may have found my DAC/ADC for recording audio. Thank you Bryan. (:
would love to see you do some of your latency testing on a product like this, I've actually had some bad experiences with external DACs introducing noticeable latency
will you be testing the X1
That Super-Xfi thing just sounded like mono on here. Not sure if that is a glitch, but something isn't right there.
To be honest, the direct mode in csgo sounds by far the best to me
Same here
Great video, many thanks :D
If this supports Creative's ALchemy software, this might actually be worth considering for some specialized builds. Still prefer an x-fi internal sound card, or my Audigy Rx for my main PC.
I have Alchemy installed and it works on by G6 and X3.
I use a 2x2 audio interface to run my powered monitors. Great for headphones and seems more versatile with a few xlr inputs for just a bit less. Not 7.1 but awesome for stereo options.
Counterstrikes 3d headphone (HRTF) setting is the gold standard for me.
Super X-Fi sounds much better if you hear it direct through a good set of headphones.
I know people like to crap on virtual surround tech but super x-fi is probably the best attempt at virtual surround that I've heard. Games, especially FPS titles sound amazing with it on and a good pair of headphones.
I usually use Bluetooth earbuds on my phone and I've been fooled by noises I thought were behind me. Watched a tech yes video the other day and he spooked me too with that weird distorted voice he does sometimes.
I just ordered a pair of DT 990 pros 250ohms. Would they be good with this X3?
@@ProjectLabz I listened to some Sennheiser 6XX with SXfI and it sounded quite bad. I did the same with my Philips Fidelio
Headphones X2HR and it sounds fantastic, especially with music. Can't say much about DT 990 pros with SXFI, but the X3 will run them fine on high gain. I'd say the more revealing headphones are the easier it is to hear the digital trickery of surround.
Are you all guys trolling? It sounds super awful i can't tell any directions at all anymore with my mmx300... with no effects in cs go i could blindly shoot them, but with the sfx effect there is no way plus it sounds super hally. And the Scout mode was too short to make a conclusion but it also didnt felt as directional as the no fx one.... (judging by the video)
@@GottHoldNicetomeet No one is trolling. If you watch carefully you can't hear it fine on video because you don't have the same ears as him. Super X-Fi has a CUSTOM profile adapted to a concrete ear. 3:38
Only thing lacking is local availability. Sounds like a trip to SG is in order.
What kind of headset are you guys using with this
I paid $100 years ago for the original Creative Soundblaster Z. I still use it today, all these years later. Of course my hearing is not perfect. My hearing was damaged during the Vietnam War and later as I was in field artillery units and no one wore hearing protection.
Damn it isnt a 3am upload in NYC. Brian's on the grind. What is that software you use to measure btw?
It's called rew
@@techyescity thanks yesman, you got me into used price to performance life.
Hey bryan, any plans on covering the Creative G6? I am tossing between it and this one. I was gonna go for the O2 and SDAC from Drop, but I chose otherwise because of the shipping locations and usability/portability of these two vs the drop items.
Any update on your purchase? I am leaning toward G6 for my 2.0 monitor speakers and Senn headphone. My main objective is accurate 5.1 re-create for movie watching, but still have extreme clean lossless music
Midnight Blue is a JAM!
Will this make my speakers sound better?
Can you show us the full list of supported Headphones in the settings
how is it with 5.1 speakers i cant find a review i have the creative z pcie but i want to mount me GPU vertically so i will lose the sound card so i have been looking for a DAC so i can use 5.1 and head phone
Can you share what programs you use to measure this? Maybe a video?
Question: Lets say I already plugged in my 5.1 speaker, then i decided to plug in my headphone (without unplug the 5.1 speaker), does it auto switch the sound channel to my headphones or do I need to do it manually? You also mention it reset EQ and Super Xfi to default after it was turn off, does it reset even though in Creative command you already switch it on? does the Creative command setting reset as well? Thanks in advance
Hi Brian i when i changed from my old 290x to a rx 590 i couldn watch any more Videos with HDMI Scaling (i like to make the Whole Picture smaller like scale to 10% becourse its easyer on the eyes on a big tv from watching ours on ours on tv shows for example) its all a choppy video watching mess. it wordked perfect on my old fx amd system and later with my skylake system till i chucked in the new Card. (Tested on win 7 and 10) . Do u think its becourse the 290x was as u mentioned Hardware based and the newer Amd cards are all software based? ps: AMD Support couldnt help me either.
wow on 7.1 headphones is really good
It will be good for my external 5.1 speakers ( Logitech z906)?
Hi, which one is your choice, AE9 or this X3? Thanks
CMSS3D isn't coming back. That tech took hundreds of audio channels and calculated positional audio from them. Ever since Microsoft killed hardware accelerated audio with Vista, we now only have 7 channels or so max.
Actually, CMSS3D on the Titanium HD supported this via OpenAL, even on Vista and higher. Sadly game devs didnt care (because it didnt work on consoles and the release of the Xbox360 and PS3 MASSIVELY shifted development from PC to consoles (which was further amplified by Microsoft pushing console gaming, because "PCs arent for gaming")) and Creative ended up only doing ONE major update of OpenAL to version 1.1 and then making it EOL.
You can however still use OpenAL Soft (an open source continuation of OpenAL) to get HRTF to work in games using OpenAL, sadly this doesnt support EAX function as good as the Creative version, let alone the ones that had hardware accelerated EAX.
what do you prefer usb sound or pcie sound
i prefer pcie over usb
btw i needed a souncard becuz my motherboard audio broke so i got a asus dgx 5.1 it sounds good
This is my favourite yet, really impressed me, even over their ae-9.
Tech yes thumbnail master :)
I think its wiser to spend money on good headphone first, rather than worry about external DAC AMP,,
Cuz good motherboard always include quality audio chip onbord
Btw,
Headphone Recommend
Philips SHP9500
I want to buy those Philips headphones , but here in my country i cant find them..
:/
@@whitemobbrdl consider
Takstar Pro82, Takstar HD2000, or ATH M40X
@@ZAR556 they are good for fps games?
Open back? Im going to see if i can buy those here
@@whitemobbrdl nah, close back
Cheap and Good OpenBack headphone is rare,
@@whitemobbrdl I'm whole heartily recommend to use OpenBack headphone for FPS games,
The experience is on another level
Tho you must be mindful of outside noises
ok so Bryan can it be used with usb headset(usb headset tend to have a inline sound card)
my headset costed only 50$(chinese brand)
yet it sounds flawless
usb headsets are just cheap low quality usb audiocards, so it would need a 3.5mm jack bypass, which most do, i mean they usually have a jack or use a usb dongle
@@churblefurbles but it sounds sooo good
@@churblefurbles the question is if this cheap sound card can produce so good sound then why even anyone will consider buying that 120$ pricy sound card
the surround sound on this cheap in line sound card is perfect
Lol $50, I spent $2 on my earbuds and they sound perfect.
Will improve the sound from a motherboard like the Asus B550M-K to my creative 4.1 speakers? Or this product is more intended for headphone and laptop use?
I went ahead and bought the Sound BlasterX AE-5 sound card a while ago. I like it. What's the appeal of this product over that one?
I think your method for trying to present the Super-xFi feature is flawed in some way because it is 100% downscaled to mono in this video. If Super-xFi does anything and it is noticeable on headphones, do a headphone demo for all 3 of the modes with a setup similar to Z Reviews.
Will this output audio through optical and Rear 3.5mm simultaneously?
Can this do hardware accelerated sound with ALchemy in DirectSound3D games? Other modern Creative sound cards purely use software emulation, only the now discountined sound cards that use the X-Fi DSPs can do hardware acceleration.
Hi I tested myself self and I'm afraid they don't support alchemy be quite honest it's just another junk, better option Sound blaster 5.1 pro USB, great virtual sound THX better than SB Omni.
@@mariuszfuchs2010 thanks for letting me know!
You are right - old X-Fi released in 2005 was better. Now all games have integrated audio engine or using open standards like FMOD or OpenAL for better multiplatform support.
This engines processing all sounds by CPU, creating 3D sound stage on speakers or headphones. No need to have this kind of features that Creative try to sell. Ordinary USB DAC will give the same job like clean output. Creative effects can give only distortion in audio that was originally designed by game developer.
Back in 95/98/Windows XP era all sounds was create directly by sound cards by DirectSound3D interface. And Creative make most advanced sound cards with EMU DSP hardware audio procesor. Last one and best was X-Fi.
Every audio source was placed directly in space and separately render by creative audio engine and finally merged by CMSS-3D in true 3D audio sphere.
Would this be considered an upgrade to my X-Fi HD?
Would it be worth it?
What software application are you using in this video to perform the product testing at the beginning of the video?
Thats REW, its great been using it for years.
$120 dollars? Better be able to hear Russian launch codes from a Nuclear Submarine...
I don't think you have much experience of audio gear.
Spent that much on my old Soundblaster Live! Platinum in the early 2000s. Last year I spent $60 for a SoundBlaster Audigy RX as it was a major improvement over my onboard audio especially with regards to headphone use (and this onboard sound was touted as being quite a step above others).
Oh boy...
@@Safetytrousers $120 is like, nothing, not even a pair of decent RCA cable.
@@allansh828 You are being ripped off if you are paying $120 for RCA cable.
Studios make up their own cables to measure and the cabling they use will typically cost less than $3.00 a metre. That's what the music you are listening to is recorded through. You've been taken in by the snake oil salesmen if you think $120 phono cables are going to give you a superior listening experience. There's only so much you can do with copper and shielding just has to be sufficient.
Other specialist audio gear and hifi though does cost a lot of money. But the hifi world is rife with loony priced nonsense. Russ Andrews for instance will try to sell you a kettle lead for £2000.
Can anyone confirm if the scout mode works like it should be on FPS completive games like Rainbow Six Siege? Footsteps are really important for me
Do you know if this DAC is designed to work with closed back or open back headphones?
Hi, does the optical out negates all the features of this dac amp except for the Dolby digital live?
I appreciate you trying to demo Super-XFI but the demo had a bathroom level of reverb on it. There must be a way to disable that.
The Gen 2 which the XFi has is better. However, one thing not mentioned in the review is the SXFI is based on photos of your head. I have tried mine and my wife's profile in RDR2 and Forza Horizon 4. I really like/love my profile in RDR2 but my wife's sound off with the "wrong" amount of reverb. Is the SXFI magical, not really but I really enjoy it over the SBX processing. The main thing is the rear channels sound like they are actually behind me and not at an ~160 degree angle right next to my head. The SXFI is also very nice for any video content even 2.0 sourced content. For music it is hit or miss. The older the recording the more I tend to like it.
Hi @Tech YES City, is it worth upgrading from onboard ALC1220? connected to AVR.
I'm going to start commenting on channels I watch frequently with the topic of the intro ad RUclips sends me "post menopausal osteoporosis". Give your bones some tech yes loving!
ASUS Xonar DX vs Sound Blaster X3, which one will you pick? Currently I have Xonar DX with my Edifier 5.1 sound system, do you think X3 will perform any better than Xonar DX?
Easy, the X3 .... it has SUPER X-FI !!!
@@Power_Fantastic what if we ignore the super xfi technology, just the sound quality
check hesuvi if you want proper surround virtualization
Does the audio signal from line-in also processed by the sound card? I planned to use it as standalone device for my TV. I have old SB X-Fi Surround 5.1, it doesn't process signal from line-in.
Hi guys ,i m curios how it performe vs the sound blaster AE-7 ? i didn t find anny thec video talking about the AE-7 but the specs. look like very intersting, and with the discount -15 off if you upgrade you re creative soundcards .
I don't know if it's just me but the "Super X-Fi" sounds like it's downmixing to mono or something, there's no directionality to the sound...?
That's exactly what I was thinking
It's just the way the demo sounds played through youtube. You have to hear it direct to hear how good it is.
Well you only have two ears so you only need stereo output, in theory, it's up to the actual applications etc to implement proper 3D sound (I think both Nvidia and AMD have path traced audio solutions available but idk if they've made it into any games yet)
It sounds a lot better than in the demos I did here.
I had to unfortunately record line in as its hardware based end out processing.
Any recommendation for good quality price-performance Microphone ??
cant beat this thing at roughly 5 euros "CMP-MIC8" its a Konig Clip on microphone
Can you use the SXFI button to turn on SBX instead if you have SXFI disabled and SBX enabled in the app?
coooool i only have an option for head phone gain and not 7.1 also dont have 32 bit on my control board for some reason.... any help bois?
That type of review is why Tech Yes is one of the best. One question tho. Does it run fine with Linux, anyone knows?
I think it doesn't have official linux support :(.
Some Linux distos can run Windows installers, or maybe Wine can do it. I'm not an expert, but some one on the various forums might be able to help.
Linux in my experience has never supported audio correctly, even back in the early 2000s. And even with current builds of live distros, it just doesn't seem to work beyond mono.
@@ZeroHourProductions407 Yet here I am running Manjaro Mate with STEREO over my JLab rewind Bluetooth headset using a generic $5 USB 2.0 Bluetooth 4.2 adapter, and I get STEREO out on all my machines with with onboard/bluetooth/HDMI as well. So please stop spreading falsehoods as Linux very well supports AC97, Realtek HD Audio, and Bluetooth audio with the correct firmware/software installed on your system. I've even gotten my ASUS Xonar DG PCI soundcard to work for basic STEREO sound output, minus the Windows only software it needs to fully drive the card's onboard headphone/speaker AMP.
@@CommodoreFan64 again, my experience does not mirror this. Then again, my experience with realtek for audio is basically a nightmare, second only to VIA chipsets of the past for how much they *don't* want to support or work with anything.
How's the 7.1 surround compare to Sennhiser GX1000?
X3 beats it. I just replaced my 1000 just more accurate to me
Which is better the g6 or this?
Intel should get that adobe guy from the last show to do the PR
How well does it represent position vs the virtual 7.1 on the AE line of cards? I was a little underwhelmed with the AE-5's directional queues.
SXFi has extremely accurate directional audio, for me. Easily beats every other solution. Probably because it's customized.
@@adaml.5355 So I got one - the surround is very impressive. Sounds from behind occasionally trigger a bit of head snap, which is awesome. The room effect it adds seems odd at first, but now I don't want to game without it. The only thing that bugs me is that the SXFi effect is applied to mic monitoring channel. Something like hearing myself speaking on a low end PA system.
Even with that, it's a great piece of tech. Thanks for the review.
Your video uploaded at 11:18 here in Indonesia.
Would you reccomend this over the G6? Its $30 cheaper and Im not a fan of the virtual surround sound.
This is much newer than the G6. It has game chat mixing, proper side-tone without delay, a better design. It has all the same gaming features. SXFI is personalized from ear scans and face scans so you may like it after it's been personalized. SXFI itself is not the surround. You have basic virtual 7.1 surround as usual, and then you can combine it with SXFI if you like it better. It's a G6 and then some, with the newest Creative Sound Blaster Command software that the G6 doesn't even support.
For music clarity get the g6, better quality dac and amp also. For gaming meh, any of the 2 will do.
@@adaml.5355 can you not just use stereo on the X3? I hate surround
Can anyone tell me if this works on PS5 with true analog 7.1 channel surround working?
I know PS4 via USB only allow stereo for sound cards, but can't find anything about PS5, also some true 5.1 or 7.1 true multi-driver headphones always have a * for PS4 saying only stereo, but on PS5 it never states anything so I wonder if PS5 finally support true multi channel USB sound cards...
bryan ur the best bro
SBX Surround is 100000000x better for positional audio than Super X-Fi.
Sennheiser gsx 1000 i have its nice, but missing optical out from it to receiver :-(
Does this add a virtual 7.1 sound device in windows so that games properly detect it and output audio for 7.1?
Is this better than the audio from my GPU to a receiver?
It is Down to 600 Ohm! The Lower the resistance the higher the wattage!
It's upto, Ohm is the resistance/impedance rating, so you would still say upto. Either way, does it really matter LOL
Use SBX for competitive gaming not super xfi
nice try but the human eye can't even see more than 24 decibels per second.
I have read and watched several reviews but still dont know if I can get surround sound from games when it is connected via the optical out to a receiver because everyone is just testing it on theyr headphones :/
Anyone got some info on this?
If I am looking to upgrade my audio, if I am interested in something like the GOXLR mini, do I still need to get a new sound card?
Could you please review EVGA NU audio card as well? Scorptec Melbourne selling them for $440 AU. thanks
I remember the CMSS 3D in game mode. That was much better than this "SuperXFi" thing. Creative, if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Yes, right I still own sound blaster x-fi 5.1 pro USB and sound great better than this junk.
CMSS 3D was not killed by creative, it was killed by Windows Vista and up because hardware accelerated audio was removed completely. Even if you had one of those cards, the CMSS 3D wouldn't work. That was back when hundreds of audio channels were mixed and placed on hardware, now we have Windows Spatial Sound and 7.1 Virtual Surround. So don't call these products junk when it was completely out of Creative's hands. Imagine how angry they must have been when Microsoft shot their entire business in the heart as game audio was fantastic. As for SXFI, it's a completely different technology. It's just meant to simulate room acoustics and a full speaker system in a personalized way.
SXFI is personalized, and it will sound completely off to a listener that does not have a profile synced and setup.
@@adaml.5355 Can you compare Super X-Fi to the spatial sounds like Dolby Atmos for Headphones or DTS:X for Headphones? I love DTS:X but i'm kinda curious about this Super X-FI thingy., like how does it compare to those 2, is it better and what differences are between them.
Good review, but bit pricey for my wallet, plus no Linux support for the software, so I'll have to pass on this one.
Far as tinnitus PLEASE PLEASE take it from someone who's had it most of their life, (almost 40 years) due to being born with hearing loss issues, as it can effect your daily life just trying get threw it, like holding a normal convo with friends, family, girlfriend, co workers, clients, etc.. not being able to hear what they are trying to tell you, It can effect your ability to determine your spacial awareness, it can effect your equilibrium, your bodies balance, your ability to drive a car/operate machinery(it's part of the reason I can no longer drive), it can cause depression, and I've even seen it drive some people mad to the point they commit suicide from it, with William Shatner(Capt. Kirk of Star Trek) being a famous case of nearly doing so at gun point. So if you don't have it, than PLEASE use decent headphones/earbuds/in ear monitors, don't crank up the vol. to max, and take care of your ears. If you have it there are treatments for it, but none, and I MEAN NONE are guaranteed to work, do to the many causes of tinnitus, and can be expensive AF!! as your health insurance might not cover them. My best advice for those dealing it when it gets overbearing, is a dark room, some GOOD headphones/earbuds at a medium vol. with some calm relaxing music to just chill out, and zone out to let your brain try to tune it out best as it can. Good luck, and may GOD bless ya!!
Great post. Can also confirm having tinitus for 18 years now, ONE gig for an hour where the DJ booth was 10ft from the main stage speakers means it took an hour of my life to cause that damage that is now permanent. It also means I find it hard to hear someone I'm talking to if there is a lot of background noise. Fun fact if you blast your ears with overly loud sound for more than 15mins, your ears will reduce what you actually hear and dull them to prevent them getting damaged. So if you've noticed you turning it up again that's your ears telling you to stop it. Carry on by all means if you want to hear a continual high pitched WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE in your ears when you are trying to get to sleep........forever.
@@djmandrick Thanks, and yep that Weeee!!/Cricket sound rarely ever goes away unless I'm passed out asleep(I guess after almost 40 years my body has learned to live with it), but playing audio over headphones at a NORMAL volume does help drown it out some, and keep me sane, but super quiet spaces are the worst like when I have my house to myself when my girlfriend goes shopping with her daughter, or I'm at work by myself in the afternoons after my clients leave for the day, and I'm doing paperwork.
@@CommodoreFan64 ear buds and low volume music all the time. Job allows me to so I'm lucky.
@@djmandrick Same when I'm not busy with my clients. I work for a non profit that deals with seniors, and run a congregate meal site, that's also part of meals on wheels, and this past month was my 16th year doing so. I'm also lucky it's only 6 mins from my house by car.
I am a fan of Creative but on windows 10 1903 the X-Fi drivers and software does not support anymore. so no crystal and other effects anymore.
good video but the dobly part was stupid lol cause of course you can't convey how a sound card sounds like via youtube... same for 8k tv tests on youtube
is this a senhizer?
I enjoy your HEALTH videos for over a year ago....how about a second series and some updates about your ADHD and how it affects your Lifestyle, Job and relationship choices
how does the creative x3 stand up to the Sennheiser GSX 1200 PRO Gaming Audio Amplifier anyone know ?