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your hardware conducts 2014 CES coverage brought to you by and CIX technology connected now we're here with creative you guys know they they're very popular for their creative blaster sound cars they do have a bunch of audio headsets but you guys know that we are getting into audio we're starting to learn more about how what good audio stands for when it really means and we came across this very interesting product from creatives so this is the creative Sound Blaster roar what's interesting about this it's designed for your living room so it's your living room audio files sort of a Bluetooth speaker that can be turned into wireless in two wired speaker as well but first of all let's take a look at some instruction is very compact you have this sort of perforated design on the top and on the sides as well so coming up to the body it is fully porphyry as you can see it is very elegant has a chrome accents both perforation on the side so we have two high frequency drivers two passive bass drivers here and an active base in the center providing a thirty degree angle sort of the dispersion of the sound and we did listen to it while it was on the desk and then provided sort of a very clear and still very loud sound experience in audio so audio projection is very nice but that's packing a lot of functionality so they are actually focusing a bit on so the high frequency drivers are really crisp and very detailed and that's what you want to hear the base is very tight very deep so it doesn't overpower and it doesn't sort of disturb the mid or the high range and for a very compact speaker like that I'm actually very impressed with the sound quality so on the top here let's let's take a look so this is NFC enabled you can simply put the phone down there and it will automatically sync up with a device the three LEDs also indicate the charging so it will start blinking when it's charging it will indicate the battery and it also would indicate if you are pairing up or not we can disable Bluetooth or yeah so this is a Bluetooth connection we can adjust the volume and there's also this roar mode I'm not sure if you can see that but the roar mode basically amplifies the sound by three deep creating a more loud experience so this is in a large room and you need that extra power from this a little Sound Blaster roar speaker that's the possibility and we also have an on and off button now coming out to the back there's a lot of features on the back so when we look at the entire so we have all the logo we have the 15 this 15 so 15 watts for charging auxiliary in so you can connect your connect this to your iPhone for example we have DC out so you can charge your wireless devices USB microUSB actually so you can charge the sound blaster roar or you can actually pass audio through this as well there's a microSD card slot and micro SD card slot will act will turn this sort of into an mp3 we have controls here play pause pass and rewind and sort of loop or shuffle those tracks that are micro SD card slot now there is a microphone built into the system so you can record your conversation so if you're in a conference call you can play and pause them as well and you can mute or unmute the microphone now there's another sort of unique feature that you can see here this is an off one plus and LS this will take your audio and mp3 from your sd card and for example it will play sort of like they gave us an example with bedtime stories so you can choose different types of bedtime stories you can record your own and this is for let's say you kids going to sleep and it will automatically sort of roll off to volume has your kid goes to sleep there's also the alarm button which means that if you're in trouble let's say can you press the alarm button and it will actually be very loud alarm in case something happens in the household and you can turn that alarm on or off now that's pretty much covers up this sound blaster roar a very impressive little device from creative we did hear what it sounds like and for a Bluetooth device it sounds very impressive I was telling the engineers here that they do really emphasize an amazing high so they don't over amplify the bass and the passive and bold active sorry active and passive drivers the base drivers do a really good job in making sure that this speaker sounds awesome so guys thanks for checking out our creative coverage here at CES 2014 and don't subscribe