Revitalize your downloaded music and movies
Restore the detail and vibrancy lost in your music and movies during compression. X Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows, letting you hear all the crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions.
Surround sound from your stereo music and movies
Expand your stereo music and movies into stellar surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like in a live performance. Take it all in from a pair of desktop speakers or a full 5.1 speaker system.
Headphone surround that sounds like multi channel speakers
Slip on your headphones and let the X Fi CMSS 3D technology move the sound away from your ears into the space around you. You ll feel like you re sitting with your favorite band or in the best seat in the movie theater. Games sound better too with positional audio that s so accurate you can locate enemies through mere sound.
Get realistic sound effects in your games
Bullets whizzing past your head. Explosions virtually shaking the room. Take your games to the next level with EAX ADVANCED HD sound effects.
And if you re using Windows Vista , Creative ALchemy restores surround sound for the same great gaming experience.
Cinematic surround sound from DVD movies
Watch your DVDs in cinematic surround sound with PowerDVD software featuring DTS and Dolby Digital decoding (free download with purchase). You can also send Dolby pass through audio directly to your home theater receiver using the optical output.
Ease of installation
Installation is a breeze with the USB interface. Simply connect to a PC or laptop with a USB cable.

X Fi technology:
X Fi Crystalizer
X Fi CMSS 3D Surround
X Fi CMSS 3D Virtual
X Fi CMSS 3D Headphone

Supplied software:
Creative MediaSource
Entertainment Mode Console
Microsoft Media Center Edition (MCE) plug in
Creative Information System
Creative Diagnostic
Creative ALchemy