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Creative Sound BlasterX Kratos S3 2.1 Speaker System Review

Audio/Speakers&Amps by stefan @ 2017-02-19

Sound BlasterX Kratos S3 is an entry-level 2.1 speaker system from Creative, which is marketed mostly at gamers, but can be also used on a wide range of devices thanks to the analog audio interface. It comes with two 2.75’’ satellites and one 5.25’’ down-firing subwoofer for a RMS total power of 46W. This should be more than enough for small apartments or for users that do not want to spend a fortune on a more advanced system, while providing easy switching with headphones, thanks to the included headphone jack located on the right satellite.

Sound BlasterX Acoustic Engine Lite

Since this is an analog system mainly driven by your own sound card/on-board CODEC, we were not really expecting to see a software solution for it, but here it is: Sound BlasterX Acoustic Engine Lite. The software is basically composed by a Creative set of preset filters which do help the Kratos S3 in different game genres such as Adventure and Action, Driving Simulation, FPS, RTS or Sports:

This software does not only support the Sound BlasterX Kratos S3, but a wide selection of other Creative analog products, including regular Stereo Headphones. Creative offers the software free, as soon as you supply an email address so the company can send you an activation code (valid on three different systems):

Some other options are available in the top right corner:

The current BlasterX Acoustic Engine software version present on the website is 1.01.10:

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