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welcome back to CES 2019 we are coming from the creative booth here in Las Vegas Nevada and the first of the technology on display here at creators lab is their x5 headphone technology this essentially goes all the way from mono up to 7.1 and it's a new form of digital signal processing and it will really bring your headphones to life like I tried the demo they had going on here which had two forms of customizing a profile for you first of all you can snap a picture of your ears and then snap a picture of your face and then through the Android app it'll then profile the sound for you but they've also got another level above that which will then do a full sweep from all different angles and then customize another profiles which I managed to do luckily get two profiles and I tried them both out and they were phenomenal it really did sound like you're in a room with natural surround sound it was that good so for those who love the old-school cmss technology this will definitely be a level above that sounding extremely good and just bringing everything to life even mono sounds on some music or interviews it just really brought the music to life I was blown away by what this could do now in terms of using this with different headphones headsets its supports pretty much anything you're not locked into creatives own lineup of headsets whether it be the h6 or other headphones they had on display you can plug in whatever brand you want you can also use it with different consoles Nintendo switch ps4 and Xbox one x for example as well as the main point being that it's focused for PC users so for instance if you're playing World of Warcraft and you just want to bring things to life this little amp will definitely do that though what else is on display here at this booth let's go through and take a look well thank you take your city and right beside me here is a new sound card that is going to be released in March this year and it's the a9 if you guys remember back in the past I did a review on the a5 and I thought it was really good this is a step above that though you've got replaceable OPM so you've got a signal noise ratio of 129 decibels out input as well has a hundred and thirty decibel signal noise ratio so it's very impressive this also has an external unit that does more than just be an external unit that you used too it's got an XLR input with 48 volt power as well so to support XLR mics condenser microphones so it's really designed to not just be the next level for people who want awesome sound coming out of their computer but also for people who are streaming and need to get a good input as well in terms of input now but you got RCA as well as manual input output and optical in and optical out as well as a mini HDMI a cm link to your external unit inside the case that finally fixed the power connector instead of using an old dirty molex connector they're now using a PCIe connector which if you're using a graphics card with two PCIe eight pins or one is a six pin you can then splice that off to the sound card like they've done in the example here which does look pretty sleek so this is gonna come in at around $299 and of course you can customize it the way you want and it's got the ESS saber nine zero three eight DAC built-in so it's deafening to please people with 32 bits 384 kilohertz support next up here for you I've got under $100 and you want a good sound bar they've got the stage 2.1 which has just been released this has HDMI support as well from the TV if it's got a HDMI out you can plug in it does go pretty loud these sub sounds pretty good is coming in a $79 and it's just a real solid solution for the money it also has plug-and-play for the USB mp3 sounds so you just plug that in and get some mp3 tracks banging on your soundstage bar though if you're even on more of a budget and you want to save some money but you want something that's portable then they've got the stage air which is coming in a 39 box it's a just a 2.0 solution it's portable has up to 6 hours battery life it doesn't have the HDMI support however but smaller lighter and it is pretty impressive for 39 bucks and the last option we've got here for people who love speakers is the pebble plus and this is going to be released roughly in June it's a 2.1 solution it's going to improve on the original pebble which has had a price dropped from $29 to $19 and this is going to be released at $29 over that and it just sounds really good as well as looking stylish for a modern desktop I guess that's the theme going on here so if you're on a budget and you want something that sounds good with 2.1 a little bit of bass as well as having speakers that are closer to your ears with the design then these will definitely deliver that it's also USB powered as well so you won't get any clutter you can take it with you on the road if you need us portable 2.1 solution and it's got an auxilary in for those who just like the old-school method of just plugging audio in and getting some beats cracking so that about wraps it up here for the creative booth at CES 2019 the amp as I said before it was phenomenal blew me away and they're actually in development for making this Wireless at the moment with a deck that will support up to four headsets in a wireless sort of configuration that's a pre-configured set in terms of release dates and pricing and specs they haven't really announced that it's all in concept but the amp is available right now 150 bucks that's definitely my favorite take out of today as well as that stage sound bar which sound impressive to my ears the 89 that's a sound card if you guys are interested in that and you're going into streaming now with a phantom powered microphone then that's definitely something to consider if you just want the absolute best quality hopefully I can take a look at that for you guys in March when it's released and give you guys more in depth specifications with obviously frequency response 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