A/V Creative's new Gigaworks S750 7.1 THX Certified Speaker System

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  1. PC JUNKY

    PC JUNKY Banned

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    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.
     
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  2. Mister_Tad

    Mister_Tad Will work for nuts Super Moderator

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    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
     
  3. penski

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    And to A/V with thee.

    *n
     
  4. overfloe

    overfloe What's a Dremel?

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    wonder when will it arrive in the uk.. even the 6.1 is nowhere to be seen :lol:
     
  5. PC JUNKY

    PC JUNKY Banned

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    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 :rolleyes:
     
  6. samuelellis

    samuelellis What's a Dremel?

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    yes it has

    most av decoders will do 6.1 & quite a lot will do 7.1
     
  7. penski

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    He's referring to the Creative *ick* jobbies.

    *n
     
  8. Will

    Will Beware the judderman...

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    A genuine 700w RMS out of of an amp built into the back of a subwoofer?! At what THD rating? A claimed 0.01% :hehe: 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).
     
  9. penski

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    I want to scream in the face of the managing director of Creative.

    ...

    ...Whilst compressing his head in a vice.

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  10. micb

    micb Minimodder

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    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.
     
  11. PC JUNKY

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    Seems like everyone here doesn't like Creative, what about Logitech or Klipsch then? :confused:
     
  12. overfloe

    overfloe What's a Dremel?

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    the klipsch rules the roost in pc speakers ;)
    logitech is also a bit overrated
     
  13. sco0by

    sco0by Mmm pie.

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    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! :hip:

    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.
     
  14. micb

    micb Minimodder

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    shvina What's a Dremel?

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    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???
     
  16. fathazza

    fathazza Freed on Probation

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    these r thx select not ultra (2) i take it?
     

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