Creative may be famous for their Sound Blaster products and especially that I knew some of the modern products like the external USB Sound Card and other stuffs that allow you to control the volume and other audio effects. Unfortunately, when it comes to today's products from Creative, it looked like I missed out everything they showed at Singapore Expo. The speakers have their own music player/recorder feature in which you can use the micro-SD card to record and play sounds stored on it. Without the card, the music player/recorder features are kind of pointless. There's also the NFC and Bluetooth support for most of Sound Blaster Roar speakers. I might have technical knowledge about Bluetooh technology like it's a Personal Area Network and it does have a short range of connectivity compared to LAN or even WAN. However, as there were too many Bluetooth interferences there, there might be delays no matter how good and professional the devices are. There were already so much of products that come with wireless/wired control-like devices. The microphone record device I saw was the SoundBlaster R3. It had the volume and reverb control as well as the microphone jack and multiple headphone jacks but the output device was obviously the computer or perhaps, the mobile device. Plus, there is also support for some other features for Sound Blaster Roar series devices. The iRoar has its own wireless microphone device and whenever you speak, the sound also comes out of the iRoar speaker which can be useful for karaoke. However, it may seem that gaming or some other multimedia technology is a true purpose for me if I want to buy those speakers.
Other speakers include the Sound Blaster AXX which may have the same functions as Sound Blaster Roar series but I think I might have seen it on some Japanese YouTuber's video showing him singing out the YouTube theme song with the speaker active, and the X and E series Sound Blaster amplifiers which may look like some docks to me where you can hook up multiple headphone jacks.
Lastly, there are gaming headsets from Creative which still have the same specialty as the other Sound Blaster products as well as other accessories where you can adjust the sound quality in a special technical way.
It was a major shame that I missed out on so much modern Creative products as they are seriously professional and superior. The next roadshow Creative will be involved will be next year's CES and I guess that they will be showing the same stuffs there.
There are multiple gaming booths this time and especially that Acer took the roadshow by surprise by entering the gaming PC market as well. The Aftershock gaming desktop computer which was HyperGate looked completely cased with no optical disk drives and front ports whatsoever from what I saw but on the inside, there were cooling systems cranked that made the computers bulky to carry. Also, you do get the external DVD drive as a compensation should you choose to buy that computer or Aftershock Tremor. The way you turn on the Aftershock Hypergate is due to the fact the that the power button is located at the top which may be unusual in terms of design and it appears that there are way so many ports at the back which can be useful for hooking up multiple monitors for hardcore gaming at the cost of so much electrical power from having multiple graphics cards. Also, there are ports at the top of the case of Hypergate as well where the power button is. Needless to say, Aftershock PC is another local company like Creative Labs is. How did they get involved in the gaming PC market anyway?
There's the Acer gaming tablet whose design is very gaming computer-like. It looks hardcore to say the least for the design but trying to find games that suit this device well is a challenging thing. However, it appears that Acer Predator tablet is not the only gaming tablet out there. There are other gaming tablets if you look up on the net but obviously, on the internal case design part, it seems that the Acer Predator tablet is the only tablet that has special design. I'm NOT talking about the external case where you can attach to your phone or tablet or something, I'm talking about the internal skin of the device. Even if you come up with a gaming tablet case to match that Acer Predator tablet, the quality won't be that best like that unless the case has its own speakers where you can hook it up to the headphone jack. Unfortunately, the Acer Predator tablet is likely to be shown on the second day of SITEX event. Also, according to reviews, the technical specs of the tablet don't seem to be as great as the tablet design itself when compared to other epic Android devices for gaming.
Lastly, I was persuaded to buy the earpiece from Klipsch as if that manufacturer can be 100% trusted due to the fact that their products are seriously superior in sound quality. I tried it and adjusted the computer's volume to 64% and I still can hear the typing sound of the keyboard despite having the output sound.
