Comments on: Zen X-Fi: finally, something promising from Creative

By: Bryan Jenkins

Bryan Jenkins — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:14:05 +0000

what i do like about the toyota corolla is its standard safety features,:*

By: Ella Walker

Ella Walker — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:52:19 +0000

my dream car is the Ford GT. that car is truly a muscle car with lots of horsepower.~;

By: Zoe Murphy

Zoe Murphy — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:07:11 +0000

My dream car is the Porsche 911 or the new Nissan GTR. those cars are really great.””

By: CAPMMX

CAPMMX — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:01:47 +0000

If someone is actually willing to pay twice as much for a “sleek” looking Mp3 player with less features, they need to go and buy a Mac computer, a $150 pair of shoes and finish it off by doing a little shopping at WalMart. The fact that everyone will join the fad bandwagon just to have cool looking gadgets shows how little people think for themselves these days. Start thinking about the quality of your products rather than how your friends and that girl you like will think about it.

Creative makes sound cards for a living, ergo, their Mp3 players are more likely to have better sound. The purpose for Mp3 Players is, believe it or not, to listen to music and in this case, the X-Fi sound technology lives up to its name.

So if anyone from creative just happen to be reading this, nicely done and remember: Quality Player over “Sleek” Design

By: xtrocious

xtrocious — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:41:02 +0000

Ian Tan – I stand corrected…hahah

But seriously dude, does your Toyota Altis cause heads to turn when you drive pass?

Or would the latest Lambo cause more of a stir, never mind the person is driving it at lawn mower speed?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:01:42 +0000

Just wanted to point out that it isn’t a good idea to compare the iPod Classic, which uses a conventional hard drive, and the Zen X-Fi, which uses a solid-state drive (which Creative has completely transitioned to). A better benchmark would be the iPod Nano (Zen X-Fi has way more storage but same size) or iPod Touch (Zen X-Fi is less than half the price and a fraction of the weight, though no touchscreen).

Another thing to note is that firmware revisions make a huge deal to sound quality, and Creative has just released a firmware update for the X-Fi. I haven’t tried it yet, but with the old firmware, the X-Fi sound enhancements worked well with jazz and folk (Coltrane, Feist) but distorted with rock (Muse, Dream Theater). With X-Fi enhancements turned off, the sound was fine, but several iPods all sounded better – less closed, with sparkling upper-mids and highs.

Lastly, kudos to Creative for adding to different setting for the X-Fi crystallizer function, but if you want to upgrade your earphones, be careful not to choose a pair that’s naturally bright, such as many of the balanced-armature models (Shure, Creative Aurvana, Philips 9850) because that makes the X-Fi Crystallizer unusable.

I’ll try and give an update after checking out the latest X-Fi firmware.

By: Ian Tan

Ian Tan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:03:12 +0000

My dream car is a Toyota Corolla Altis and I currently own one – with raging fuel prices, the fuel economy is great. And because every other dude in SG owns one, nobody is itching to scratch your car!

Ok, but seriously, I do fantasise about Celicas.

By: xtrocious

xtrocious — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:22:50 +0000

Where’s the touchscreen Creative?

This is where I think the design team is not in touch with the latest trend…

And they also got to remember that Creative is now selling to a consumer market – people now buy things to project an image – never mind if there are less features…

Take for example – cars…

Yes, a Toyota is probably more practical than a Ferrari and probably better to drive and all…cost a hell a lot less as well

But seriously now, tell me how many people’s dream car is a Toyota?

By: Alfred Siew

Alfred Siew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:09:55 +0000

Yo PC! hows it going? Yes, it’s true Creative’s interface takes a little getting used to, but the price sure is attractive!

By: PC

PC — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:16:37 +0000

Hello Alfie

Ho say boh?
PC lah. I have the Neeon Zen and the Stone. I have no complaints with the audio quality of Creative MP3 products (I know the Stone sounds bad, but what do u expect for $99? yifenqianyifenhuo right?) but the problem with them is interface design. The Zen’s jog which requires u to turn, hold and press in minute measured amounts require some finger calisthenics. If like uncle your fingers tremble due to excitement…it’s very ‘cham’ and it may take a while before you can start playing “She blinded me with Science”. Maybe you have to “limber up” with some finger exercises before tuning.