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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro USB Audio System with SBX SB1290

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Brand	Creative
Hardware Interface	USB 1.1
Audio Output Mode	Surround
Platform	Windows
Hardware Platform	Headphones

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Small and power packed with SBX Pro Studio, delivering the fullest audio experience for music, movies and games
SBX Pro Studio Surround expands the music away from your headphones, giving an exhilarating experience of being in a concert
Small enough to fit into your pocket and experience on the go
Creative Silencer removes ambient noise to make your voice clearer to the other party (Creative dual-microphone headset required for use of this feature)
Easy to use, simply plug in for the Sound Blaster experience

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Output: Stereo
Audio Processor: X-Fi
Connectivity Options (Main): Headphone / Speaker Out: 1 x 3.5mm jack Mic In : 1 x 3.5mm jack
Max Channel Output: Stereo
Audio Technologies: X-Fi, SBX Pro Studio
Supported OS: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP (Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 2 or above)

Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro, USB Cable, Quick Start Leaflet, and Smartphone headset adapter cable

Note: this sound card is not compatible with Mac systems.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro USB Audio System with SBX SB1290

Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro brings incredible enhanced 3D audio to any computer, anywhere! Designed for maximum portability, this sound card is small enough to fit into your pocket and even fits on your key ring! Enjoy incredible 3D Surround with any headphones in movies, games, and enhance all of your PC and online audio.

SBX Pro Studio Enhanced Sound for Your PC

This USB device can also utilize SBX Pro Studio, our in-house technology that works to expand your PC's audio channels, allowing for faithful surround sound reproduction for an immersive and realistic audio experience. In addition, it restores your music's natural frequency range – something that is often lost when music is compressed into MP3 format, and fills in low frequencies to boost bass.


3D Headphones Surround Sound Incredible virtual surround over any headphones for immersive movies and gaming. The X-Fi Go! Pro includes two convenient 3.5 mm stereo jacks, one input and one output. This allows you to connect the card to any auxiliary device with a 3.5 mm adapter, including microphones, speakers, and headphones.	VoiceFX Technology and Sound Blaster Audio Quality Add more fun to online conversations with VoiceFX technology that morphs your voice in online chats or during in-game. The industry standard for audio quality on the PC is made available in a portable USB sound card with Sound Blaster Audio.	EAX 5.0 Enhances Gaming Audio and Performance The X-Fi Go! Pro has been specially engineered to handle gaming applications. Using hardware-accelerated EAX 5.0 technology, the sound card delivers crisp, deep audio that will fully immerse you in the game. The card also supports OpenAL and Creative ALchemy software to further enhance surround sound in gaming.	System Requirements Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP (Professional x64 Edition, Service Pack 2 or above) Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD equivalent processor, 2.2 GHz or faster Available USB port 1 GB RAM 600 MB of free hard disk space Internet Connection


	Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro	Sound Blaster PLAY! 3	Sound BlasterX G1
Max. Playback Quality	16-bit / 44.1kHz	Playback: 24bit / 44.1, 48.0, 96.0kHz	Sampling Rate (Playback) : 24bit / 44.1, 48.0, 96.0kHz, 16-bit / 44.1, 48.0, 88.2, 96.0kHz
Max. Recording Quality	16-bit / 44.1kHz	Mic-in: 24bit / 48.0kHz	Sampling Rate (Mic-in) : 16/24-bit / 44.1, 48.0kHz
Output	Stereo	Stereo	Stereo
Max. Headphone Output	-	16Ω - 300Ω	Up to 300Ω
EAX	EAX Advanced 5.0	-	-
Audio Fidelity	Up to 16-bit / 44.1kHz	Up to 24-bit / 96kHz	Up to 24-bit / 96kHz
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)	-	~93dB	~93dB
Scout Mode	-	Yes	-
Headphone Amp	-	-	Up to 300 Ohms
Gaming/Home Entertaintment	Yes/Yes	Yes/No	Yes/Yes

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Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro

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High quality Sound Blaster 3D audio on the go! Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro brings incredible enhanced 3D audio to any computer anywhere! Designed for maximum portability this sound card is small enough to fit into your pocket and even fits on your key ring! Enjoy incredible 3D Surround with any headphones in movies games and enhance all of your PC and online audio. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Go!Product Features SBX audio technology to enhance and customize your music movies and gaming experience. Also features incredible virtual surround over any headphones for immersive movies and gaming. VoiceFX Technology adds more fun to online conversations and can morph your voice in online chats or during in-game chatting. Uses Sound Blaster Audio Quality-the industry standard for audio quality for PC and now available in a portable USB sound card.

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Product Dimensions

5.51 x 1.57 x 5.51 inches

Item Weight

8 ounces

ASIN

B0044DEDC0

Item model number

SB1290

National Stock Number

7050-01-604-9290

Customer Reviews

618 ratings

4.3 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#60 in Computer Internal Sound Cards

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

August 25, 2010

Department

sound card

Manufacturer

Creative

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Jason Edgar

Got it for a basic College Laptop using Windows 8

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2013

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I got this sound card for my Dell Laptop which is used for College. If you are running Windows 8, I recommend that you skip the CD installation and instead download the Windows 8 Compatibility driver software from the Creative website. This software contains everything on the Install CD as well as being compatible with Windows 8.

[The Creative Software can be glitchy at times as the speaker configuration will auto switch from 2.1 speakers to headphones even when the 2.1 speakers are the only device plugged into the Sound Card. However, in the Sound Card's, volume Control Panel, the driver shows that the 2.1 Speakers are selected. This may just be a visual glitch and not performance related.]

My laptop has a low quality on-board sound card that does not make use of bass and when watching movies, there is no equalizer in place. As such I purchased the X-fi Go! Pro, this came with the extra sound options. My speakers are the old Creative Inspire T-3000, 2.1 system (possibly a 10 year old speaker system). I was able to plug these into the USB card and the software made full use of the bass, etc.

I live in the college dorms and now every time the building gets together, they come to me as I seem to be the only person with an external sound card. Everyone uses laptops here and the on-board sound just does not cut it. We went from watching movies that make use of heavy bass/loud sounds with an on-board card that does not transmit any of those qualities through speakers, to the USB sound card that transmits all the qualities.

This is not the first Creative sound card that I have purchased, I own two other's a Creative Sound blaster for the desktop and the Sound blaster Audigy SE for the desktop. Then the Speakers are the Inspire T-3000 2.1

I gave the rating 4 out of 5 stars, the removed star is based on the company's (Creative Labs) product support is somewhat poor, I had to use Google to find out what the definitions for some of the options in the Software Entertainment Console meant.

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brian

good simple product for the price A++

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2013

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Some info you might find helpful:

I use it to sing karaoke online through my laptop. It has a good reverb separately for microphone (micFX), and several reverbs that are equally useful for music/wave audio-(EAX). I use it every day to sing and play my guitar, or sing off karaoke videos online, or saved karaoke songs in my laptop.

Pretty cheap and good quality for a portable usb sound card. I can plug it into any computer with a usb to use. It is more convenient than an internal sound card. I no longer use an internal sound card or have a desktop. I choose it for convenient to just be able to plug into my laptop and sing right away.

I broke 3 or maybe 4 now through my own fault for standing up while the headphone is still plugged into the usb sound card which kept on getting bent until it starts to lose sound, crack, or not function as it should anymore. I bought roughly ten of these used and new on Amazon, and they all worked great. They stopped working because I kept standing up and break them. I still bought more. That's how much I like/find useful/convenient with these sound cards. I'm on my 4th one now within the last four years. I sing and play guitar for more than 6 hours almost everyday, more on the weekends or days off. I gave the extra cards to friends to help them get started, and I plan to buy more.

As far as I know, there're only 2 or 3 creative sound cards that have micFX(reverb/echo for microphone). This usb being one. I don't think the others are available anymore, For me the micFX is a must when I'm singing. It gives some reverb to vocal. MicFX to me is the most important reason to buy this sound card. The other is that it's convenient, and cheappp...heeh. I do not want to plug in my $500 mackie or Health Allen mixer just to sing when I can simply use this and start singing right off.

I can go on, but to me this has been the most useful sound card. I can focus on my music more. I hope the info helps, have fun!

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OhhWell

Decent USB sound device ruined by typical creative driver support

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2019

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Creative has always had a reputation for terrible driver support and it's nice to see that it continues with this xFi Go Pro. I tried it in a windows 10 laptop and the driver that is installed by Microsoft automatically works just fine. Since this is branded as an Xfi product and the web page for it does advertise EAX support, I went ahead and installed the driver package from Creative. Then I ran the auto updater.

After all that, the software was installed including Alchemy which is how I suspected they were deriving their EAX support. No big deal, I didn't expect an actual hardware implementation in this little thing.

Anyhow, that was all great except... The sound no longer worked. The Xfi go pro was errored out in device manager. I tried uninstalling and updating a few times to no avail. What worked was letting windows do a driver rollback. Then the xfi was working properly and the Alchemy software was still active. There is only one odd glitch and that is I can no longer adjust the volume level. I tried with the mode switch in speaker and headphone mode. Neither windows nor the creative Volume Panel can lower the volume from 100%.

I am giving up for now...

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Adrian Merrill

Caveat Emptor

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 9, 2019

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Despite showing up in the (Amazon) search results for "os-x usb audio" - and although it /is/ plug & play on both OS-X (10.14.4) and Linux (Ubuntu 19.04), it's not exactly compatible.

While I was able to use the device on both O/S's listed, the input audio was always clipped regardless of the mic level setting set by the O/S. Unfortunately, as there is (also) no software for this device (software is Windoze-only), there was no way to fix the clipping of recorded audio (same issue on Linux and OS-X).

I'd hoped to use this on my MacBook Air to record my vinyls (via Audacity) to lossless (FLAC) as there is no audio input on MBA's.

Since I don't use Windoze, I cannot speak for how well the device would perform for this endeavour (or any other purpose).

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Mathieu

Amazing sound!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 6, 2018

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I always loved creative for their sound cards. I've had several usb sound cards from them in the past and they all lasted 7-10 years. For me that's more than reasonable.

Now the reason I got this one is because I had issues with an old PC desktop running on XP. The sound ports weren't working and obviously I wanted sound so my last option was to use a usb sound card. (Motherboard was for AGP sound cards lol so that was a no go).

I had a spare HyperX usb sound card that worked, but I couldn't adjust the sound (probably XP incompatibility). When I saw that this one was compatible with windows XP I gave it a shot and dam I wasn't disappointed.

Sound quality is amazing and literally destroys my HyperX (sound levels taken into account). Plugged my Sony headphones into the X-Fi go and my ears simply melted. I could hear every small bit of detail in Alien versus predator 2. Game is old, but still holds up in terms of atmosphere and gameplay. Not much else my XP tower can play anyways lol.

Apparently this dongle works with a PS4, but I haven't tried it. It comes with a usb adapter thing so technically it would fit into a Playstation usb port. Plus it also comes with a 3.5mm mic/headphone splitter so any PC headset should work with this.

Pros:
-amazing sound
-decent price
-works with XP

Cons:
-cable is short, but you can get a longer one if needed

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Vocalinds

Buggy when computer volume is low

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 17, 2012

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I bought this because I had been using the Creative SoundBlaster Play! to deal with my laptop's crappy onboard sound, but lost the Play while travelling. This seemed a bit more expensive, but they don't make the Play anymore and Creative is a good brand so I decided to give it a try. I was thoroughly disappointed upon installing it to find that when listening to anything with prominent bass frequencies I got a buzzing/hissing noise. Now, I was using my Skullcandy earbuds that are very sensitive and don't have a volume control on them, so my computer's volume was turned down to about 10%.

After going to an audiophile friend's house and trying different equipment/headphones/computer settings, the noise was still there. The only thing that solved it was to turn the computer's volume up significantly, in which case I think the other frequencies coming through wind up masking the noise. I thought I was going to have to return it. But I found a solution: buy a $7 inline volume control for my earbuds, crank my computer's volume up to 100%, and turn the sound down through the inline control. Voila - no more noise! The sound is quite good now that the problem is fixed.

So just a warning: if you're listening at low computer volume to anything where bass frequencies are clearly audible, you'll get a buzz from the X-Fi Go. The aforementioned friend said that may be something Creative fixes with a new driver in the future, but until then you'll have to find a way to deal with it.

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LoMa

The sound is much better than that on board

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 5, 2014

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Works perfectly for my purpose. I need a decent external sound card of manageable size. The sound is much better than that on board. The software that supports it improves a lot over the years. The settings can be tweaked to give a dimensional effect of sound without sacrificing the quality. l recommend the product. Note: you may need a USB extension cord since the unit is a bit thick for USB ports that are too close to each other.

3 people found this helpful

good for special price

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 2, 2012

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Got it at around $37, it is good for who wants better sound quality than general laptop's sound chip, but I have waited about 6 weeks for it for lack of stock. I use it to play classical music mainly, it is a light solution of desktop music, my speaker is also light and tiny 2.5 - 3" pair 2.0, under $50. If you think $40 is not a big number for this card with Creative Brand, you could enjoy it.

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