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Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D THX USB External Sound Enhancer for PC, PS3, XBOX 360 and Mac - SB1300
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- THX TruStudio Pro Surround with Dolby Digital Decoding
- All the advantages of an internal sound card in an external USB device
- Sound Blaster audio on the gaming platform of your choice
- Equipped with the Tactic Link expansion slot allowing you to link directly to a Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Omega wireless headset
- And future Sound Blaster products with the optional Tactic Link TX card , Programmable Recon3DProfile Audio Settings
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Powered by the revolutionary Sound Core3D multi-core Sound and Voice processor, this breakthrough USB audio enhancer deliver powerful gaming audio to your console or PC. With hardware accelerated THX TruStudio Pro and Dolby Digital decoding it transforms even basic stereo into exhilarating 3D surround audio on your headset or speakers. The proprietary Scout Mode transforms your hearing on the battlefield and lets you hear your enemies before they hear you. Calibrate and save every aspect of your audio settings directly to the Recon3D unit for use on any platform with the exclusive Recon3DProfile system. The gaming audio revolution is here. Be part of it.
List Price: $ 129.99 Price: $ 99.99
Customer Reviews
| 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful  Five Stars for SQ, This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D THX USB External Sound Enhancer for PC, PS3, XBOX 360 and Mac - SB1300 (Personal Computers) That is the first reason to buy this thing. Onboard sound chips are the bane of audiophiles, and this product helps correct that. This thing drives the biggest headphones with ease, even those with high impedance ratings, with loud, clean audio.If you are connecting the output to your home audio receiver, you are completely missing the point of this device. This is made for people with good headphones, and a laptop with sub par audio capabilities. Right off the bat, it works in windows as a 'usb sound device' so if you only care about high quality stereo listening with unaltered sound, you don't even have to install the software. However, technogeeks will want to dig into all the features this thing has to offer. I have long been a fan of 'dolby headphone' for the simple reason it 'externalizes' stereo listening so that your sound seems to come from speakers outside of the headphones sitting on your head. Even the most devout stereo fanatics will tell you that music is made to be heard from speakers in a room where psychoaccoustics from the two speakers can play off each other. The THX processing in the recon3d takes dolby headphone to another level, you have the ability to adjust the surround simulation from two speakers in a room to 7.1, whatever your preference is. Plus you can turn off all processing with the touch of a button on the recon3d. One of the banes I have always had with headphone listening is that centralized sounds like vocals or snare drums seem to come from 'inside your head', which is unrealistic. You also have the ability to 'simulate' a .1 subwoofer and you can adjust the level and crossover point of it. So right off the bat, being able to change my laptop music listening from 'pinned to your ears' sound to 'big speakers in my living room' sound made this worth the purchase. After running DOSBOX and playing some old fashioned doom, I couldn't believe how immersive this game became, the surround simulation works like a charm, pinpointing where the grunts were became second nature and lots of headshots followed. If you have a dvd player in your laptop, the recon3d takes dolby 5.1 digital audio and again simulates a room environment, depending on what level of surround simulation you set it at, similar to dolby pro logic, using dopplar effect for the desired result. Another thing people are missing is that the input doubles as both a toslink input OR an analog two channel input. So you can connect your favorite game console of choice, it's not limited to 360/ps3. Hell if you power the unit with usb power you can connect any source you want to enjoy the surround processing. With a regular 3.5 to 3.5 cable you can hook your ipod up to it, and enjoy the added clarity, volume, and surround processing. It IS limited to 24 bit/48 khz audio so if you are accustomed to higher, you might be dissapointed. However, online music is still 16 bit/44.1 khz, and 360 audio is still 24 bit/48khz audio so you aren't losing anything. In a nutshell : S/N ratio is high, it will drive big headphones with ease, blowing away your onboard junk. Surround simulation is adjustable from 7.1 to off. The equalizer allows tweaking for that *extra* bit of perfection. And for those that still care, it even puts EAX hardware acceleration back into older games that Vista/7 removes, since it acts as a complete standalone sound processing unit. Oh, and being able to sound like Diablo while voice chatting is just plain cool. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful  Not good on 360., This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D THX USB External Sound Enhancer for PC, PS3, XBOX 360 and Mac - SB1300 (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) Note: This review will primarily focus on the Recon3D's performance on Xbox 360, since this is my primary gaming platform. I do not own a PS3 and do not play FPS/shooter games -- which this is designed for -- on PC. The device was tested with a pair of fairly nice Wireless RS180 Sennheiser Headphones on 360 and a set of inexpensive JBud J2 Earbuds on PC.Creative makes a lot of wonderful, competitively priced audio products for PC. I've owned a pair of Gigaworks T40 speakers, their external Creative USB SB1095 sound-card, and a few SoundBlaster powered gaming rigs. I've always been satisfied with their performance. The Recon3D, however, is a poor offering. Marketed as being able turn any headset into a surround sound experience, the Recon3D falls woefully short in this area. Not only that, but the Recon3D's much touted "Scout" and "THX" modes amount to little more than bullet points on the box. You know those room effects you can enable for a lot of onboard sound cards in Windows? That's pretty much what those two modes amount to. Scout mode dampens out some of the louder sound effects in the mix and raises environmental noise (i.e. the hum of the overhead lights in the Checkout map in Gears of War 3) and footsteps. This does not, however, give you an advantage, as the advertising on the box would suggest. Only when you would be normally within hearing range of the noise anyway -- i.e. next to the stream in the remade Beaver Creek map in Halo: Reach -- will you be able to hear it...only louder, overshadowing the rest of the audio mix. Obviously the Recon3D can't magically boost the range of your in-game hearing -- it can only work with the sound data it's getting. But what this means, really, is that Scout mode just boosts some frequencies in the mix and dampens others. Hardly as exciting as they make it sound, and it certainly won't save you from being assassinated before it's too late. THX mode is much the same in that it boosts gunfire/loud noises in the mix. Think of it as "explosion" mode. It kind of compresses the mix, overshadowing more subtle sounds for the "in your face" variety. There is also a "standard" mode, available when both of the aforementioned options are disabled. It only seems to make the mix flat and punchless -- much worse than its two counterparts. Another con for 360 users is the number of wires required to hook it up. There's four wires you need to run -- five if you want to use the mic (which, by the way, hooks into your controller, thus nixing any benefits of it being wireless) -- and while they're all included, it makes for an eyesore and irritating setup. I have my 360 hooked up by HDMI -- this device works only via Optical (or USB, if you have a PS3/PC) -- so I had to spend ten or so minutes unplugging wires in my attempts to discover why I wasn't getting any sound. The surround sound effect is poor. I found that I could find my enemies better when I just plugged my stereo headphones into my amp, rather than using any of the Recon3D's modeling modes. One positive I will note is the lack of hiss/noise when using this product. When I plug my headphones into the jack on my amp, I get a low amount of noise. I do not know if this is because the port is improperly shielded or the 1/8" -> 1/4" cable adapter (which I don't have to use w/ the Recon3D) does not work properly. Nonetheless, I get absolutely no hum or interference when using the Recon3D -- just the sound from the game. On PC, this functions as a DAC (I believe) and an external sound-card. It is nice that it outputs an optical signal -- good for those that have receivers with TOSlink connections. I did not test its game functionality because I only play RTS games, which really don't particularly benefit from surround sound. That being said, its music functionality/sound was fairly similar to the Creative SB1095 USB Soundcard, except the 1095 retails for about , which is less than half the Recon3D. It's better than onboard audio, but there are cheaper options available that sound just as good for that purpose. I will note that it comes with a software suite for adjusting its effects. This may make the PC virtual surround performance significantly better than its 360 counterpart, since the user can tweak the settings to their liking. Overall, if you're an Xbox 360 gamer I would look elsewhere. Personally, I've never been particularly impressed with either low-end true 5.1 setups or emulated 5.1 via headphones. If you only have 0 - 0 to spend, I'd recommend either getting a pair of mid-range stereo speakers or wired headphones. Surround sound is awesome when it's done right; unfortunately, I think that it usually takes a lot of money (and a nice acoustic space) for the effect to be fully realized. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful  A fine product, but slightly overpriced, By This review is from: Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D THX USB External Sound Enhancer for PC, PS3, XBOX 360 and Mac - SB1300 (Personal Computers) Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?) Having used several gaming headsets, including a pair from Creative, I have become used to top notch sound with my computers and only slightly lesser sound with my gaming consoles. The Recon 3D Sound Blaster doesn't stray too far from this idea as it works exceptionally well with a Mac or PC, very well with a PS3, and marginally less with an Xbox 360. I tested this product with a Mac, PS3, and Xbox 360, and while it more or less does its job, the price proves to be a tad high in the overall scheme.I tested the Recon 3D with the Creative Sound Blaster Tactic 3D Omega Wireless Gaming Headset and it added some noticeable strength in quality to my Mac setup. This sound enhancer is about the same size as other enhancers, but the added bonus of the Recon 3D are the array of buttons. Buttons for volume, mute, THX, and Scout Mode are featured on the front, and I found the latter button to be the most clearly recognizable sound difference to the unit. This mode enhanced the sound immediately while tested with a few video games on my computer and certainly made a big difference in ambient noise. Both the high and lows were more clear than without it, and explosions were intense. There is also a button for a wireless adapter that is not included with this product. There are USB and optical audio jacks included here for easy plug in adaptability. I found that the THX TruStudio Pro Surround works well on the Mac, but this feature only works on your computer, not on your consoles. However, the THX is more or less useless with music, so make sure that if the THX sound is what you're after, you plan to use the feature for gaming only. I tried the sound enhancer with several tracks and it certainly loses some of its dynamism with bass heavy tracks. This enhancer is made for strength in gaming sound, and it performs admirably in this respect. This unit works well with the PS3, and with my Omega headset it was an easy setup. The 3D surround sound was exceptional, and with many headphones seeming to leave out the surround option these days, this Recon 3D becomes even more important. For example, one of the biggest annoyances with the Creative Omega Headset is there is no 3D surround option leaving many gamers turning to sound enhancers like this. As usual, the sound with Xbox 360 takes a minor hit as everything is required to plug in to the controller which leaves the wireless idea at the door, making the entire gaming sound experience more cumbersome with less quality. Owning a great pair of headphones first is going to enhance your gaming experience more anyway, but I didn't find the Recon 3D to be much of an improvement with the 360. My only complaint comes with the way Creative offers their 0 Omega headset with no surround options, then asks 0 for the sound enhancer. Most quality headphones include surround with the headphones itself, so if you plan on getting the best experience for your buck, you'll need to drop 0 for the whole lot. It certainly seems both the Omega headset and Recon sound enhancer would make a solid purchase for customers at 0, making the Recon a tad overpriced. In summation, the Recon sound enhancer is another solid addition from Creative's canon and will certainly enhance any video game or computer system with its nice array options. Keep in mind that owning a nice pair of headphones is essential to getting your money's worth out of these, so if you've already invested in a quality headset, you really can't go wrong. |
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