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We looked forward to a chance to get our hands on some hardware from Creative to thoroughly explore its capabilities.
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One in particular, Creative X-Fi CMSS-3D featured on the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium sounded the best, providing the best virtual surround audio compared to its competition. However, some implementations are better than others and we listened to the few audio recordings on the internet that gave us the opportunity to listen to those implementations we previously were not able to experience. Unfortunately for headphone users, it is an unattainable challenge to recreate the sound of six or eight speakers on just two speakers. Positional audio is a desirable and much wanted feature gamers want, but obtaining a set of 5.1 or 7.1 speakers may be neither reasonably priced nor practical for some people. Those dont work too well either to the point we have never recommended a headset on that feature alone.
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Then there are true surround sound headsets, those that pack multiple drivers on different channels into each earcup. The more extreme case is Dolby Headphone which degrades audio quality when it is enabled. For the more modern implementations such as Razer Surround and Dolby Home Theater V4, simulated positional audio was hardly noticeable. For some time, weve shared our underwhelming experiences with sound cards and headsets with integrated audio processors that featured virtual surround sound.