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Creative Aurvana X-Fi Headphones

Posted 01/28/2008 at 6:59pm | by Michael Brown

We’ve never liked headphones that use active noise cancellation because they simply mask environmental noise by generating background hiss. But Creative’s Aurvana X-Fi headphones are almost good enough to win us over.

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Creative Xmod Wireless

Posted 10/30/2007 at 12:14pm | by Michael Brown

Creative is a little late to the wireless music-streaming party, but the company comes with a gift its competitors can’t match: the X-Fi Crystalizer technology lifted from its X-Fi soundcard line.

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Start Your Engines!

Posted 06/30/2007 at 8:45am | by

A buggy or poorly written driver can stall your hardware, and Paul Lilly reports on some recent updates you can take for a spin.

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Creative Xmod

Posted 06/05/2007 at 5:14pm | by Michael Brown

Being audio purists, we typically piss on products that sit in the midst of an audio stream and manipulate what the artist intended to create. But when listening to music played through Creative’s X-Fi soundcards, we’ve increasingly found ourselves turning on the 24-bit Crystalizer—and liking it!

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What's happened to the powered speaker market?

Posted 03/25/2007 at 12:22pm | by

A good multimedia speaker rig will deliver much better performance than any mere iPod dock, but where have they all gone?

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Creative Zen Aurvana

Posted 09/22/2006 at 12:12pm | by Michael Brown

Creative has pulled together a very nice audio package here. The Aurvana’s are a terrific-sounding set of headphones that deliver crisp, well-defined audio across the sonic spectrum.

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Creative Zen V Plus 1GB

Posted 09/17/2006 at 11:35am | by

We've seen Lilliputian MP3 players before, but Creative has taken the concept a step further with the Zen V Plus: This change-purse-size device boasts a vivid 1.5-inch OLED screen for viewing photos and videos.

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