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Creative Sound BlasterX G5 7.1 HD Audio Portable Sound Card Review

Audio/Others by stefan @ 2016-04-20

In order to check out the card performances, we have used the Rightmark Audio Analyzer utility (with all effects disabled, in order to get accurate results) which tells an interesting story! The included Cirrus Logic CS4398 DAC along with the Texas Instruments TPA6120A2 headphone amplifier are a very good combination since this new model passes over the Omni 5.1 with flying colors and we can say that it positions itself safely near the internal variants: Titanium HD and Sound Blaster ZxR. This is quite a great deal considering that it is not taking any more extra space inside our computer (some ITX builds do not allow installation of a dedicated sound card) and can be also switched back and forth between consoles, PCs/Laptops but also Macs.

The Software GUI Part II

If we would like to have fun with our friends during conferences, we can always work with Voice FX feature:

Here are the predefined profiles we can work with:

The Advanced Settings menu does allow us to choose between speaker and headphone setups, enable Direct Mode (which disables the effects and delivers pure audio), SPDIF-Out Direct (which allows bit-to-bit streaming of up to 24-bit 96kHz PCM data signals without processing) or we can enable headphone surround for Line/Optical Out:

Headphones connected

Speakers Connected

The Mixer area allows us to work with all the volumes from the interfaces:

The software also allows us to work with miscellaneous settings:

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