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This is a hands-on, subjective review of the actual product.

Requires additional configuration to use all features.

Includes USB, 3.5mm and optical-digital cables.

Works with PC/Mac, consoles and mobile devices.

Super X-Fi surround-sound virtualization.

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Voice communications supported when connected via 3.5 mm port and with Bluetooth to Android and iOS Nintendo Switch Online app or VOIP client

Available 3.5 mm headphone port on console.

You also have the option of using “traditional” 5.1 or 7.1 virtual surround, which includes Dolby Digital decoding support.

However, choosing a headphones model is optional, if you have a high quality pair and create the personalized profile, you’ll be able to enjoy Super X-Fi sound. For an even more optimal experience Creative has profiles for a variety of headphones, of course including its Aurvana Live! products but also other brands and models. In order to use the Super X-Fi function, which creates virtualized headphone surround and takes the shape of your ears into account, for a more precise and convincing effect, you’ll need to run the SXFI app (on mobile) or the Creative app (on PC/Mac) and create a profile. It is a key aspect of this unit’s design and a feature that makes it dead-simple to bounce between chat and focusing on sound effects. It is as described, allowing you to rotate a knob to change the balance between chat and in-game sound effects.

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The Sound Blaster GC7 also offers SXFI Battle Mode, which incorporates virtualized distance, not just direction, thus providing a tactical advantage to players who know how to use sound cues to uncover enemies and other hidden game elements.Īn entire oversize knob is dedicated to the GameVoice Mix feature. These functions work with speakers and headphones.įurthermore, the GC7 has Creative’s gameplay-enhancing “Scout Mode” that lets you amplify and zero in on audio cues, so you hear telltale sounds that would otherwise be missed. You also get the “classic” suite of Sound Blaster audio enhancements like “Crystalizer, Smart Volume and Dialog Plus”. It allows for accurate 3D sound placement, as if you were sitting in a room equipped with a sophisticated multi-speaker surround system. There’s the Super X-Fi “headphone holography” that is Creative’s most advanced surround virtualization. You get dual DSPs to process sound to your taste. The GC7 supports hi-res PCM audio up to 24-bit/192 Hz and can translate Dolby Audio (5.1 channels) into virtualized 2-channel headphone surround. Rounding out the physical controls are four programmable buttons and a mute button, arrayed along the bottom of the unit’s face.

This interface lets you rapidly adjust parameters like surround, bass, treble, mic level and SXFI effect.

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Between these two knobs is a circular arrangement of buttons and a smaller rotary controller knob, plus a numeric display. Two large knobs define the interface and offer volume adjustment (left knob) and Game/Voice mix (right knob). This DAC/amp is designed to rest on a desktop and offers large, tactile buttons and knobs for making adjustments.

With CD audio offering 96 dB (un-dithered) listeners enjoy a nice cushion of extra silence, beyond the noise floor of the source material.

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This translates to a silent background, free of noise and hiss, and offers the dynamic range needed to accommodate hi-res playback. Since DACs aim for neutral, transparent sound, the definition of “audiophile” in this case refers to the noise floor, which is spec’d at -120 dB. Creative touts an “audiophile-class” DAC for the GC7.