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Creative Labs Xmod Wireless Music System with X-Fi Technology 70SB083000004 | 
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| Brand: Creative Labs
Category: CE
List Price: $232.11
Buy New: $73.99
You Save: $158.12 (68%)
New (25) from $73.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 5.7 x 9.5
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 70SB083000004
Model: 70SB083000004
UPC: 054651141643
EAN: 0054651141643
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: 100% Genuine Brand New Sealed In Original Retail Box - Fast Shipment Within 24 Hour of Payment
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| Features:
| • | Restore the details and vibrancy your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all--crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions | | • | Expand your stereo music and movies into virtual surround sound. Voices are centered in front of you. Ambient sound appears all around you... just like a live performance | | • | Listen to Xtreme Fidelity music and control playlists up to 100 feet (30 meters) away from your PC using the X-Fi Wireless Receiver | | • | Use the remote controls with the Xmod Wireless transmitter or the X-Fi Wireless Receiver to play, pause and skip through your music | | • | Add as many X-Fi Wireless Receivers as you like to get all that great Xtreme Fidelity music in every room of your house |
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Product Description
Connect the Xmod Wireless transmitter to your PC and desktop speakers to enjoy Xtreme Fidelity music.PRODUCT FEATURES:Play music from your PC wirelessly in any room;Make your MP3s sound better than CDs;Connect in seconds - no configuration needed.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 Play your PC music collection all around your house wirelessly and with superior sound! August 31, 2007
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
The Xmod Wireless comes in 2 parts, a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter connects very simply to your PC via USB and it functions as a USB soundcard, applying X-Fi sound enhancement to any sound or music that is passed through it. Compressed audio like AAC, WMA and MP3 files are upscaled to 24 bit quality and surround sound effects can be added.
You have to experience this to appreciate it. It really does make your music sound better. Sometimes the improvement is more subtle than at other times, but the quality X-Fi provides really shines when you connect the receiver end of the Xmod Wireless to a good set of speakers that you might have in your theater or family room.
So, on to part 2 of the package. The wireless receiver. This enables you to control and listen to your music anywhere you place the receiver in your house. Your PC music collection is streamed around the house with top notch quality and fidelity. I have my receiver connected to my theater setup and the sound is fantastic. You can purchase additional receivers if you'd like to play your music in multiple rooms.
Cool things about the package overall. The range is great and there is no lag. Plus, it just works. You don't need to have your own network or anything running already. Just turn on the receiver and transmitter and away you go, nothing to fuss with. If you do have a network running, this won't interfere with it at all. I think both units are stylish as well. They fit right in with high end equipment and they are pretty small.
You also get a remote for each side and there are inputs so that you can connect an MP3 player. With the remotes, you can skip tracks, pause tracks, turn on and off the X-Fi features, etc.
I don't really have any negatives other than the price, but I still think it's worth it. Sonos has products with similar features that cost up to $1000. Xmod Wireless gives you what you need with better audio technology for a lot less. It would also be nice to have a small display on the receiver unit so you can see what you are browsing.
Overall, Xmod Wireless is highly recommended. The unique combination of a driverless and simple to use USB soundcard with a high quality streaming device is an excellent way to introduce your PC to your home theater setup or to any room of your house.
 Don't waste your money August 23, 2007
10 out of 21 found this review helpful
This product will shortly be in the dust bin of bad technology. I have several Creative Labs products and all of them are pretty good. My Audigy 2Z platinum pro is great on my desktop. But I'm looking for a laptop media solution and this was not a good choice. First the unit reduces the volume output in all modes from the original source. Second the unit does not work with any of the media players on my laptop including one by Creative. Third the units volume control does not work when you use it digitally through the USB port as designed. I didn't even bother hooking up the receiver when I saw the transmitter does not work. Forget about any help what-so-ever from Creative. They only answer you with automated emails and their call in line is useless. This product looks great but it does not live up to the hype.
Does what I want while others can't July 12, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This gizmo allows me to play the same music in several different locations at once.
With airport express you can only connect to one reciever at a time and only while using iTunes. I also tried Sondigo Siracco which not only has the limit of one reciever but is technically challenging. I would have to reboot the PC several times to get it to work and then it would have buffering issues causing the music to cut out.
The Xmod works great. Easy to set up in the control panel and so far I have been able to connect to three different receivers at the same time including one that is poolside - about 75 feet away out doors. (I believe the limit is 4 recievers at one time.) I am not sure what will happen if my neighbors start using a set.
I also can play music in my office at the same time by connecting my powered speakers to the audio out of the transmitter. This works great for when we have parties.
I don't have much use for the remote controls can't really do much with them other than adjust volume and their range is not very big. It would be nice to have digital audio outputs.
Finally, a wireless gizmo that allows me to play music through out my house and outdoors. It is extremely easy to use and sound quality is good.
doesn't work as advertised September 4, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm attaching this review to both the transmitter and receiver of this wireless music system.
I bought 1 transmitter and 2 receivers as a gift before trying them -- big mistake. The marketing materials claim you get crystal clear audio wirelessly at 100 feet. That is absolutely not the case. I put 1 receiver 30 feet away from the transmitter and the audio quality was so poor as to be completely unusable (and the signal sometimes dropped out completely). I also tried turning off the wireless network to see if that would help (which was an unacceptable compromise) but that didn't fix the problem. I even tried re-arranging furniture to bring the units closer together, but I simply couldn't make the units work as advertised. (More info in case this helps you: the building had concrete exterior walls, and there was at least one other wireless network over which I had no control that had low signal strength where I tried to use this system.)
Besides the fact that this system doesn't work as advertised, here are some additional complaints:
* They units don't come with all the audio cables you'll need.
* The units are needlessly big and bulky. The receiver units in particular should be much smaller because they have no dock.
* The remotes are overly complex for how little you can do with this system.
* You must know your way around the iPod menu by heart in order to use the remote controls from a distance.
* You really need your music well-arranged in playlists in order to use this system to its fullest. Otherwise, you're left scrolling through a giant list of random songs, and because the remote control doesn't have a scroll wheel, you have to forward through the songs one at a time.
Sounded Terrible on my Stereo July 2, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was excited to see this because I love the idea of being able to hear MP3 files on the "big stereo" in the den. I have a very nice Yamaha receiver and Klipsch speakers, and when I hooked up this contraption, the sound was simply horrible. I tried all the adjustments I could find - like turning off any effects on my receiver and this thing...nothing worked. Very distorted sound, nowhere near as good as CD or even radio.
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