Creative Super X-Fi: A ‘holographic audio’ eargasm
Few things in technology are guaranteed to bring you actual joy, but Creative’s Super X-Fi just might qualify for that list. In short, the Super X-Fi distills decades of audio work into a tiny, portable dongle no bigger than a USB thumbdrive that transforms smartphone, laptop, or PC audio with “holographic audio,” according the company.
While that sounds like a lot of superfluous ad copy, we have to admit that after weeks of using the Super X-Fi, the company is on to something. We’d almost believe Creative’s claim that it has found the “holy grail” of audio, but we’re disinclined to recall the Quest Knights just yet.
GETTING STARTED
The Super X-Fi features a USB-C port on one end, a standard 3.5mm analog jack on the other, and features volume, shuffle, and a single control button on its surface. A tiny LED changes state from green to orange to let you know if it’s at work or not.
To get started with the Super X-Fi, you first download an Android app through the GooglePlay store. You then take pictures of your head which is analyzed by Creative to pick the perfect audio profile for your particular head shape.
This is necessary because so much of how we hear sound is determined by the timing differences of audio arriving in our ears, and the shape of our head and earlobes plays a large part of it.
Besides profiling
