Creative USB Sound Blaster X-Fi HD does THX TruStudio Now

Creative made another upgrade their USB sound card line with the Sound Blaster X-Fi HD, an easy add-on upgrade to any system whether it be for gaming, movies or music. The X-Fi line has been one of the highest quality sound cards that Creative has manufactured with regards to THD and signal clarity. Less than .001% THD with gold plated connectors, a 24 bit DAC and fiber optic output make for incredible sound. All audio can be significantly enhanced by the X-Fi Crystalizer and Dialog enhancer included in their THX TruStudio PC Suite, which also creates virtualized surround sound channels. Crystalizer adds audio fidelity and quality back to downsampled or compressed music like MP3s. Dialog Plus cleans up voice tones and enhances speech for clearer sounding dialog over the rest of the soundtrack.

Analog phonograph line input is an interesting addition to the USB Sound Blaster. This allows ideal capture of vinyl transfers to digital format. Creative's ALchemy system makes a return appearance as well. ALchemy restores the DirectSound EAX function that was unfortunately crippled in a patch awhile back; it repairs this and allows gamers to experience immersive 3D positional audio in games for Vista and Windows 7. Windows XP isn't affected by that issue fortunately. The USB Sound Blaster X-Fi HD will be available soon starting for $99. No official release date has been announced nor a product image is posted as of this writing.