creative sound blaster omni surround 5.1 usb sound card review

You’ll find the headphone and mic inputs at one end, flanking the volume dial. It’s nothing like, for example, Sennheiser’s GSX 1000, which is what you get if your sound card and a thermostat have a baby while on board a space ship. If you’ve seen Creative’s last go at a combo DAC/headphone amp, the G5, you already know what the G6 looks like-it’s surprisingly nondescript and about the size of a deck of cards. Title=More%20Expert%20Tech%20Roundups&type=articles%2Cvideos&tags=tech-roundup&count=6&columnCount=6&theme=article There are also optical connectors for your console if you want to also use it there, but I’ll get to that later. The G6 is a box that sits between your PC and wired headphones, connecting to the computer via USB and your headphones with the usual 3.5mm audio jack. In other words, it’s a high-quality external sound card – I suppose it’s not all that complicated after all. It's for audiophile gamers who want better sound quality than that offered by whatever soundcard is embedded on their motherboard. It’s a combination hi-res DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) and headphone amplifier that plugs into your PC or gaming console, offering up dramatically better sound than what your rig provides on its own.

Those days are long gone, and nothing better illustrates that than the Sound BlasterX G6 (See it on Amazon). There was a time when the world was a simpler place, when I could (mostly) explain technology to my dad.

Creative sound blaster omni surround 5.1 usb sound card review