Conclusion and Verdict
Ahhhh the moment of truth….Lets break it down. Super X-Fi? Is it legit or is it audio snake oil? I can assure you this tech is 100% LEGIT. To keep it short and simple, when you pair Super X-Fi with your personalized app you get a sound unique to you. I can easily demonstrate the usefulness of the app. Take you hands cup them around your ears. Did you surrounding sounds change? I bet it did. Everyone has different ears and they capture sounds uniquely. Creative has captured this and applied it to their products!
Let talk about the listening experience. Overall I can say my experience was enhanced. Which is what I would expect with any external amplifier system. If the claim is to enhance my sound I want a determinable amount of increase in the sound compared too without the amp. I was impressed, First thing I noticed was the bass. It hit harder, sounded deeper, and I was able to turn it up louder without encountering distortion that I was getting before. The sound felt wider. How can I put this? When I was using headphones the sound felt like it was coming from far away but also like it was right on top of me. I think that makes sense? The sound was fantastic! While gaming I loved the footsteps Enhancer setting. It put a noticeable enhancement on those sounds while not hurting the overall gaming experience. Chat mix is also available for you hardcore games. You can easily adjust the volume of your teammates so you can be sure to hear them.
Now lets go over the software. Well I messed with everything, more than once. And while doing so I was able to reach a point where I actually had the reset the device a couple of times. Not exactly sure what I did but I was able to really put it into a bind. Could of been, I just didn’t fully understand the settings I was changing. At one point I lost sound to my receiver and freaked out. But after a reset everything worked again no problem. Honestly It could have been the fact that I had the USB and the 3.5mm line in both receiving sound and I kept flipping back and forth to see if the sound was different? Something I wouldn’t usually do. All the equalizer settings had a noticeable effect on the sound. The software was responsive and worked very well.