Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 RGB soundcard launched at E3

[wyte_w0lf]

No, it's because you're on Hexus - Nobody here likes RGB, apart from me, it seems.

i like RGB too. black case and monochromatic components with rgb means you get any look you want. and if you want a refresh, change colour or pattern.

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[kmantere]

A pointless product if you care about audio quality. Sure, 32-bit 384 kHz is very "high definition" on paper, but when the human ear can only hear frequencies up to 28 kHz under ideal laboratory conditions (normal hearing range goes up to 20 kHz) and since the Nyquist frequency is half the sampling rate of the signal, anything above 56 kHz doesn't make the sound any "better". Higher frequencies and bitrate can be useful if you are doing music production with hundreds of DSP effects, but when the product is targeted for gamers it's just nonsense that certain consumers fall for. The bigger problem is that it is a PCI-card, because that means it is goes inside your computer case, which is a noisy environment and thus the worst place for a DAC, which is why you would never plug your cables to the analog outputs on the device itself, if you didn't want it to pick up all that noise (how much exacly depends on how well they have managed to shield it of course). This is why audio interfaces that plug into a PCI-slot typically have a breakout box and more commonly audio interfaces directly connect via USB or FireWire. But what's even worse than plugging your audio equipment at the back of the case is connecting it to the front panel because that in turn is internally connected with another wire, which pretty much works like an antenna absorbing all that noise from the system.

[aidanjt]

I think my sig is still relevant.

[Burnt_Custard]

I don't know why, but somehow I'm thinking RGB-RGB controller. Genius

[AGTDenton]

I've always hoped for an x-Fi Titanium HD replacement for the audiophile but they really have gone all out on the mass market now.