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The Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Elite Pro is the highest-quality, most feature-complete Sound Blaster ever developed. The “top of the line” Sound Blaster X-Fi solution, the Elite Pro includes all of the standard features, application software, power and performance capabilities of the entire family of Sound Blaster X-Fi cards, in addition to professional-quality digital-to-analog converters (DACs) with 116dB SNR, and an external break-out box that provides comprehensive connectivity for your headphones and all your audio gear.
Make the most of your latest recording
This smart sound card gives you a dedicated audio creation mode plus digital and analog connections for all of your audio gear. You'll get near transparent sample rate conversion, digital-matched recording, and ASIO recording with latency as low as one millisecond and zero CPU load for the most precise audio recording capabilities in any class!
Powerful gaming performance
Rejuvenate your games with faster, smoother frame rates, intense, realistic sound effects, and X-RAM that boosts audio quality and performance even further. The X-Fi audio processing engine boosts real game performance by more than 15% over ordinary motherboard audio.
Hear your enemies before they find you
Slip on your headphones or put your multichannel speakers to work for you with positional audio that's so accurate you can locate enemies by sound.
Battle in a realistic 3D soundscape
Bullets whiz past your head. Explosions shake the room. EAX® ADVANCED HD™ delivers realistic sound effects that take your gaming experience to the next level.
Revitalize your compressed game sounds
X-Fi Crystalizer makes gunshots sound crisp and sharp and explosions really boom for the most intense gaming experience yet.
Make MP3s sound better than CDs
X-Fi Crystalizer technology restores the detail and vibrance to your compressed music and movies. All the highs and lows are intelligently enhanced so you'll hear everything in crystal clarity.
Experience cinematic DVD movie sound
Get THX® certified surround sound plus PowerDVD software featuring DTS™ and Dolby Digital® -EX decoding for cinematic DVD movie playback (free download with purchase).
Turn stereo music and movies into surround sound
X-Fi CMSS-3D technology expands your stereo MP3s and digital movies into surround sound over multichannel speakers, stereo speakers or even headphones. Experience headphone surround sound so good, you'll swear you're listening to multichannel speakers. Voices are centered in front of you and ambient sounds are moved all around you.
Enjoy clearer voice chat
Hear the difference Sound Blaster X-Fi makes to your voice communications. Whether you're chatting in game or catching up with distant friends, every voice comes through loud and clear.
Control it all from your couch
Browse through your music, movies and pictures with the X-Fi wireless remote and Entertainment Center software.
Which Sound Blaster is right for you?
Compare them all to find the Creative Sound Blaster that best suits your needs.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 15.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 11.7 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 7.9 pounds | | Package Length:
| 15.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 11.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 7.95 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Really cool soundcard!Feb 11, 2010
Ive had this soundcard for a few months now and im definitely happy with my purchase! Way better than onboard audio and so many more abilities! Installation went fine for me (Vista). I did a little studying beforehand though, the only thing I had to know beforehand was how to disable onboard audio in the BIOS screen. The Crystalizer is great, except it noticeably distorts if you have a good or loud recording and try to set it above 50%. But it really makes standard music sound A TON better! Bass is a lot tighter and punchier. Also makes the highs a lot crisper. And this soundcard is really cool with headphones! It really gives a ton of power to my headphones, equal to, if not more than my reciever. CMSS on my speakers is ok, but I feel it REALLY shines on headphones. This soundcard is definitely a great buy in my opinion. The only problems ive noticed was that sometimes I have to switch modes because of a hiss that sometimes comes up in audio creation mode when trying to record. After that it usually goes away when I go back into audio creation mode. And it lags my computer when I want to log off or shutdown. But its well worth it for having this awesome soundcard.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Good soundcard, useless in Win 7 due to horrible driversFeb 11, 2010
If you still use Windows XP, you may still buy this top soundcard of Creative. It offers an excellent sound quality and a very useful external I/O box where you can easily and comfortabely change settings.
BUT: If you moved to modern system software like Vista or Windows 7, forget this soundcard and all soundcards of Creative! You cannot use the very expensive I/O box anymore, you will hear a lot of hiss and sound disruptures and ... the worst ... Creative seems to be absolutely unwilling to update their non-working soundcard drivers, in spite of the fact that this soundcard is their top product. The cybernet is full of stories of deceived customers of Creative who cannot use their Creative equipment any longer after moving to Windows 7 or Vista. Creative may not be considered a brand name any more for you cannot rely any more on getting a top product when buying Creative items.
So if you intend to move to Vista or Windows 7: buy a product from another producer. They update their functioning drivers every month, Creative only published a non functional driver nearly one year ago without any sign that it intends to care for their existing customers. I will definitely never again buy Creative products due to the non-existing customers service.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
excellent productApr 16, 2009
I've been in computes since 2000. I'm 20 years old and this was far difficult to install. The installation was really easy, since i did a little research before buying this expensive product and followed the installations steps i haven't encounter an problem even when i reinstall this product due to reformat to the computer. I'm studying to be and IT and as far i can say, this product produces really good quality of sound if is equalized properly. The only bad about this sound card is the price.
6 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Unbelievably difficult to install. Deceptive tech help. Jan 23, 2009
I've been in computes since 1978. I can honestly say that this was the WORST installation nightmare EVER! After phoning Creative to determine that this card would work with my computer and getting the "OK" I ordered it along with an accessory they said I needed. They said I should do a total UNinstall of all audio devices. I did. Took an hour. Then the installation of this product took THREE hours due to the necessity of rebooting after every web update to their software. After all that 50% of the programs and features would not work. Would not even recognize that the card was there! After another day of fiddling around with it I then got an email from a "Technician". He said NOT to install any update and only to use the original CD installer. Ok... Did the clean removal AGAIN and then the install. SAME PROBLEMS! Now they tell me it is Service Pack 3 causing the problem!!! A SP that has been out for many months now. I GIVE UP! NEVER again a product from Creative. The "technician" didn't even know what "Ground loop hum" was. I will say that the s/n ratio was/is awesome and what did work sounded great. Hated to return it but back it goes. Sad. AVOID all these heartaches and buy something else for sure.
5 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Big hassle to installJan 09, 2009
Why can't Creative make software that doesn't require a reboot for every little update or part of their suite? I ordered a refurbished card and external unit off of Creative's site, big mistake. After spending several hours installing software, new updates and drivers, it appears the external unit is DOA. This was bought to replace my Audigy2 that died after less than a year. I'm done with Creative. My Turtle Beach soundcard has outlasted 3 of them. At least they make returns easy.
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