Creative, well-known for its Sound Blaster sound cards, has unveiled the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD and Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD.

First looks indicate both are fully compatible with Windows Vista/ 7 and feature audio playback up to 24-bit/96kHz for speaker outputs. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD is a PCI-e card that features replaceable Op-amps, EAX® 5.0, Dolby Digital and DTS encoding whilst the Sound Blaster X-Fi HD is an USB-bus powered soundcard that doesn’t require an external power supply. Availability has not been announced yet but it is believed that the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD and X-Fi HD will cost around 190€ and 90€ respectively.



Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD Features:

    * RCA Line Out for audio playback up to 122dB, 24-bit/96kHz Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC)
    * RCA Line Input for recording up to 118dB, 24-bit 96kHZ Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC)
    * 0.001% Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise (THD+N)
    * Headphone output for audio listening up to 115dB 33 Ohms, and 117dB, 330 Ohms, at 24bit/96kHz
    * Replaceable Op-amps
    * Hardware-accelerated 3D positional audio and EAX® 5.0 effects that provide a truly immersive experience with headphones and speakers
    * Dolby Digital and DTS encoding enables one-step single-cable connection to home entertainment systems
    * TOS-link optical-in/out
    * 1/8” microphone-in
    * 1/8” headphone jack
    * Creative ALchemy™ to restore EAX and surround sound that is otherwise lost in DirectSound game titles running under Windows Vista and Windows 7
    * ASIO recording support with latency as low as one millisecond with minimal CPU load
    * Works with Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems



Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD USB Features:

    * RCA Line Out for audio playback up to 114dB, 24-bit/96kHz Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC)
    * RCA/Phono Line Input for recording up to 108dB, 24-bit 96kHZ Analog-to-Digital Converters
    * TOS-link optical-in/out
    * Gold-plated 1/4” microphone-in
    * Gold-plated 1/4” headphone jack
    * USB-bus powered, no external power supply required
    * Creative ALchemy to restore EAX and surround sound that is otherwise lost in DirectSound game titles running under Windows Vista and Windows 7
    * Works with Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems

im very interested in the USB version. mainly because the x-fi surround 5.1 have too much compatibility issues. however the HD doesnt appear to support 5.1 speakers. Perhaps it's the successor of SB Digital Music SX?

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There is but it use nonstandard connector and pinout. Also its NOT the AD_EXT near the end of the card

Yes it is. But I don't remember its pinout

That is what I meant when I say it used nonstandard connector and different pinout.

EDIT: I got the pinout in like 10 sec after Googling. Much faster than posting in forum looking for answer. Good luck building one

i guess it's launched already..
found it in c-zone price list..
selling @ rm659..

Found X-Fi Titanium HD review at VR-Zone.

Looks mighty impressive and like I guessed it uses Burr Brown DAC judging from SNR and DR spec. But what I don't expect is they uses two single opamp on differential to single ended stage instead of using just one dual opamp. Plus they use LME49710 which regarded even better spec and better sounding than its LME49720 dual-opamp counterparts. Very interesting card to play with

Solid caps isn't as good as any other boutique caps like Panasonic or Rubycon audio grade to be honest. Its good for motherboard because of its reliability and longetivity, but there is also some low quality solid caps that could explode. But it definitely an upgrade from the standard cheap leaky caps they use on old cards

Read the review, they say something about PCM1794A, its basically the same spec as PCM1792 found on Xonar ST/STX but it incorporated hardware control ( I don't know what that means). Quite high end? Its the highest performance DAC Texas Instrument have currently.

I wonder do you need spoonfeeding everytime?

Anything that uses X-Fi CA20K1 or CA20K2 (not the CA0106) is considered as gaming card, and to some extend, the ASUS Xonar lineup (Xonar is more all rounder, music, gaming and entertainment). Other than that, like VIA DSP with good DAC considered as music card, like Onkyo and Audiotrak that have professional driver. Any card that have both X-Fi DSP and good DAC could do double duty as both gaming and music

i need some help, my xtrememusic showing some problem.. Sometimes will have no sound, when i unplug a jack, then i plug back, will have loud hissing sound. If not hissing sound, will have distort sound, like noise when i listen to music.. How can i fix it? Or any sifu can help fix my xtrememusic? I cant live without it, my onboard is just too sucky, but i dont have money to replace it yet