![]() ![]() My first foray into the Zen way of life was a positive one with the Zen Style featured today showing all the hallmarks of a veteran in its field.Īs you may have guessed, there is not much to fault here, but there really should not be because Zen has been around for some time now with years to iron out issues, which is what Creative has done to great success. A good user base has already been established with several very well thought out products both currently available and also on the horizon no doubt. I also discovered the actual playback of the Zen Style during my testing of digital music scored very well with my ears only boosted by what is arguably the devices most impressive feature, the X-Fi processing facility.Ĭreative Labs have a strong pedigree with the Zen family. You see, it's in the way that the Crystallizer actually makes a real time analysis of the scene (file) and decides where the restoration needs to be applied in order to rejuvenate the squashed music into something closer to what came on the original disc.ĭuring my evaluation of the Zen Style I found performance in key areas such as visual performance with the built in TFT LCD to be quite impressive to say the least. The difference between the Crystallizer and a standard EQ preset is that the aforementioned does so much more than simply boost the bass and treble an amount. I'll say straight up now that I feel (and have felt for some time) that the X-Fi Crystallizer is equal to or better than ANY algorithm I have used over the years. However, the Crystallizer does an absolutely marvelous job at exactly what it sets out to do which is make your compressed music sound a serious deal better than it currently does. I say its not better than the original because, well, it's not. These regions then get restored to their (partial) former glory (it's not better than an original CD) and all is well once again in the world of sound. The first restores the dynamics of compressed digital music by analyzing the file in real time and acting to identify particular low and high frequency regions which may have suffered a data loss during compression. Quite an impressive spec list, but I would expect nothing less from Creative who is famed for giving the user a heap of cool extras to play with. Organizer: Clock, Alarm, Calendar, Task, and Contacts Photo Formats Supported: JPEG, BMP (TIFF, GIF, PNG to be converted with bundled software)įM Radio: Built-in FM Radio with 32 preset stationsĮQ Settings: 8 presets and 5-band custom EQ Video Playback Formats3: WMV9, MPEG4-SP3, DivX3 4/5 and XviD3Īudio Playback Formats: MP3, WMA (DRM9), WAV (IMA-ADPCM) Audible4, AAC4, FLAC4. Power Charging: Yes (via PC-USB or ZEN USB Power Adapter (sold separately)) RSS: Displays RSS content feeds offline (Sync via PC/Laptop connected to the internet) Video / Audio Out: PAL / NTSC (via A/V cable sold separately) ![]() X-Fi™ Audio Enhancement: Crystallizer / Expand effects Speaking technically, let's start by looking at some specifications. ![]()
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