{"id":154919,"date":"2023-02-08T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=154919"},"modified":"2023-02-08T05:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:11:44","slug":"sound-blaster-x5-creative-technology-brought-a-dac-to-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/sound-blaster-x5-creative-technology-brought-a-dac-to-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Blaster X5: Creative Technology brought a DAC to the table"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Singapore-headquartered brand has launched the new Sound Blaster X5 desktop DAC headphone amplifier.\u00a0Unlike most similar devices, the novelty retains its generic connection with computer USB-audio interfaces and is equipped with a built-in microphone amplifier, so it can be used in home recording studios, as well as for network streams and podcasts.<\/p>\n

This is the brand’s first model with a dual DAC based on two Cirrus Logic CS43198 chips with a claimed signal-to-noise ratio of 130 dB.\u00a0DoP128 and DSD256 single bit streams are supported.\u00a0The coefficient of non-linear distortion does not exceed 0.00018%.\u00a0The output impedance of the headphone amplifier is 1 ohm.\u00a0Built on the same discrete Xamp circuit as used in the Sound Blaster AE series and Sound BlasterX G6 devices.\u00a0Supports a proprietary PC application that includes a 10-band equalizer and many proprietary processing – Surround, Crystalizer, Bass, Dialog +, CrystalVoice, etc.\u00a0Drivers – with ASIO 2.2 support.<\/p>\n

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Headphone outputs – regular 6.35 mm and balanced 4.4 mm, microphone input – 3.5 mm.\u00a0Details about the microphone amplifier and ADC are not reported.\u00a0There is a built-in Bluetooth 5.0 receiver and a dedicated USB-A port for wireless transmitters, external USB speakers and headsets.\u00a0Connecting to a computer and powered by USB-C.\u00a0The suggested price in the US is $279.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Singapore-headquartered brand has launched the new Sound Blaster X5 desktop DAC headphone amplifier.\u00a0Unlike most similar devices, the novelty retains its generic connection with computer USB-audio interfaces and is equipped with a built-in microphone amplifier, so it can be used in home recording studios, as well as for network streams and podcasts. This is the […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":154922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-154919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}