Has anyone seen a good review or reviews with nice close up pics of this new speaker system by Creative, it is a 7.1 speaker system with 70 watts to each of its 7 sattelite speakers and 210 watts to its subwoofer (Total 700 Watts for whole system), to top this off this system is THX certified. Link to Gigaworks S750 I known this may not be the right place to post this topic so if someone knows a better place please feel free to move this post.
it would probably be easier to find the review of the 5.1 gigaworks they are both the same thing, just one having 2 more sattelites
As far as I know the Gigaworks S750 has not been released for public purchasing yet, but I do think that it has probably been sent out to a very few select people/sites for reviewing purposes but that's just what I think. It may just be to early for any reviews to have surfaced yet
A genuine 700w RMS out of of an amp built into the back of a subwoofer?! At what THD rating? A claimed 0.01% not convinced on that personally.. To do 700w RMS at low THD, you tend to need a fairly large and expensive amp (and the amp for that lot doesn't seem exceptionally large or expensive, relative to separate equipment from the likes of Rotel, Marantz, NAD etc). I have trouble with Creative being able to do a true 700w RMS @ 0.01% THD (but then I have trouble believing a lot of things Creative have said).
I want to scream in the face of the managing director of Creative. ... ...Whilst compressing his head in a vice. *n
Creative spec are so BS it is easy to see there misleading faults. They rate pairs of channels as 70 WRMS so individually each channel actually 35 WRMS. Also: the spec. Rated @ 8 ohms @ 0.1% THD @ 1kHz, 2 Channels Loaded. This means they can to a single sine wave of 1 Khz which us useless as any other other frequency especially mid/bass will be much much lower. A proper rating Creative could use would be..... 8 ohms @ 0.1% THD @ 20hz-20 khz per channel at speaker outputs.
I dunno - i have the Logitech Z-680 speakers and have been really happy with them. Give them a good DTS soundtrack (Fast & the Furious for example) and they can kick out some serious sound! Also - dont you need a Dolby Digital EX or DTS-ES source to be able to get the full benefit of the Creative 7.1 speakers? The only films I have seen recently that support those are the extended versions of LOTR & LOTR-TT.
While the specs are inflated, the set could well be better sounding than Logitech or Klipsch current offereings...... http://gear.ign.com/articles/450/450753p1.html?fromint=1 The IGN bloke seems to like them.
gig 7.1 Toms hardware has an review of 7 or 8 systems including gig 7.1's .Klipsch 5.1 ultras were not reviewed i wonder why???