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The sender sent me the wrong item. I purchased a Sound blaster x-fi go and he sent me a sound blaster play instead (without the installation CD). The seller can not be trusted. He's a con artist!

First off This sound card is perfect if:

You want a sound upgrade for a laptop or PC through STEREO speakers and headphones, if your looking for a 5.1 card then stop reading now and look at this:Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1


The Pro's:

Creative Soundblaster!!!
It's really, really small
It sounds amazing, MMMM BASS!!
£35 for premium quality!
Custom eq, Bass Boost level, X-Fi level
24bit sound!!
Simple an effective control panel and volume centre.
Re-Vitelise your WMA's and Mp3's
When unplugged your laptop/Pc goes straight back to on-board sound
the list really could go on and on an......


The Cons:

It does'nt output 5.1, but who uses it for laptops ayway?
Not much else


Buy if:

You want premium sound on the move and want control over the levels eg, bass trebble and much more

I bought this to pump music through my hi fi as I was shocked at the poor quality of the sound coming from my new laptop, having been used to a desktop with a dedicated sound card. The instrument separation is very good and the sound is quite bright, not what you would call a very warm sound, so whether you think it's great or not is a matter of persoal taste. However, it's a huge improvement on the onboard laptop sound and it's been performing perfectly having been plugged into one of my usb ports since I bought it a couple of months ago. Doesn't have a graphic equaliser which is a pity. At least I couldn't find one.
Recommended.

I initially bought this because my voice recognition software refused to recognise the onboard sound card on my computer, but it turns out I can't use it for that purpose because recognition is not good enough, the test dictation I did came out as "in in in in in in he in in in..."! But I completely understand that voice recognition software has very specific mic requirements, and this product is not designed for that purpose anyway, so that's definitely not a criticism of the X-Fi Go. However I have found another good use for it; my skype phone stopped working when I got a new PC running Vista (no driver, mutter mutter) but the X-Fi Go provides extremely good sound quality. I have also found it very useful for listening to my foreign language learning materials on ITunes, I pick up words I would previously have missed. It could not be more easy to install and use, the headphones are effective and comfortable, and the sound is just brilliant.

I bought this to improve upon the poor sound quality from my Compaq mini netbook. Have had the device for all of 15 minutes and it has in my opinion already justified the cost. The sound is CD quality through both headphones (Sennheiser HD 465 headphones) and through stereo amplifier (bass and treble at neutral), where before the sound was flat and dull sounding. Haven't yet tried the virtual surround sound in a game, but the test was promising.

All drivers installed easily from the inbuilt memory, software interface pretty self explanatory.