Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Audio System SB1090 by Creative
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Digital camera reviews of Creative Labs USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Audio System SB1090
Digital camera Review: Good sound card
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this a couple of months ago, and so far it has been performing without an issue. I have it hooked up onto a Z5500 Logitech system and I must say the sound quality is awesome.Digital camera Review: Great Little replacement for build in soundcard
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great little soundcard. It plays great on my laptop computer running xp. It has all the inputs I was looking for especially the digital so I can hook it to my sound system and sounds great. The only thing I have to gripe about is the fact that when I resume from hypernation the soundcard has to reconnect to xp probably some updates I have to do. Other than that I have no gripes about this soundcard.Digital camera Review: Great Product
Summary: 4 Stars
Initially I had problems in installing drivers (on IBM Z61T) and other creative softwares. But once the drivers are installed the sound card works perfect.Digital camera Review: Great Product but Inadequate Product Instructions
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this product to improve the sound quality of my laptop primarily for streaming movies online and routing the sound through my home theater system. I chose this particular product because it has a digital optical output and that is the best input option for my home theater system that could allow 5.1 sound.
I was able to set it up and get sound easily, but the sound quality was garbled at times and was only coming out over 2 speakers. The supplied instructions gave no information on how to configure the system with digital optical output.
After a couple of hours spent fiddling with the control settings, downloading and installing beta drivers, and reading posts, I learned in a post that the sound output within the OS control panel needs to be changed to use the digital output as opposed to the analog output if it is configured the way I have it.
Just with that simple change, everything worked. The sound quality is great and coming out in full surround. My only complaint is that this is not written anywhere in the start up manual and I wasted a good amount of time figuring this out. This point could be made very easily in the quick start guide and it would save a lot of time and agony.
I have a engineering masters degree, and I can imagine that some people who have given this product poor reviews might have given up sooner. I have a good deal of patience for this type of thing and I know many do not. It seems like a silly problem to have, when the product is actually good - all it needs is a better manual. The way I am using it seems like a pretty typical application of the product, so I would imagine that it would merit writing about it in the startup manual.
Digital camera Review: Great external solution
Summary: 5 Stars
I have it connected to my HP HDX16 and I am using the optical out to connect it to a DENON 1709. The soud quality is excellent, its very easy to install and use. I am very glad with this purchase.