sobering result: for listening to music is not recommended!

Well, what I'm saying. I'm actually a loyal customer and has so far Creative also never disappointed.
They learned about the last 15 years, easy to live with and Treiberproblemchen but had sound-wise always a super package.
Unfortunately my old X-FI Extreme Audio was slightly bitchy lately, so I had to live with the sound of a USB Teufel Concept C200 ultimately. The sound is generally not too bad, but I lacked even clearer treble and finer polls as I was used in the X-FI. Alone the regulator for treble and bass adjustment gold were worth a "quick & dirty".
Well I thought, to new shores, give the Successor times the chance ... said and done. Ordered, delivered get clean uninstall the old driver, built, installed, shocked.

After booting first quite curious cheered the Itunes Medathek on random and .... Bassbrei.
Well, unadjusted, can happen ... I thought. In addition, the Concept C200 is eh quite bassy if not curbing the table.
So open Sounblaster Z Control Panel and go to the Odyssey.

Compared with the Audio Console from the X-FI which was very thin which jumped towards me although visually pretty, but.
After several rehearsals, I've decided to completely disable this SBX Pro Studio, since this has brought out of just about every musical genre the worst thing that I know. Since the Xonar DX1 was even better, and I was awful (yes, I once experimented ... for 3 weeks).

The card itself is extremely bassy, ​​so I first had to make various settings in the EQ to achieve a result in which the neighbors not rebel at the end of the street, let alone the next door here. Adjusting the treble: The perfect result, I still can not find, unfortunately. In particular, the stereo sound is unbalanced, since the card is designed as a seemingly reinweg for surround and can project them no clear center in stereo playback. The song goes like at times, the music overpowering pops out of the two speakers, under served by a massive bass scaffolding.
You can enjoy instrumental however already, once you turn leaves another EQ and all the gimmicks of the card disabled, I'll grade soothed somewhat by "This Will Destroy You", which also here like to the seat of Israel over control (at 50% card and 50% volume level through the system.) Qntal ... is ok but at the Smashing Pumpkins is again closing. Guitar and bass drown out the vocals almost completely and the sound once you will switches on the SBX Pro Studio Crytalizer via extremely unnatural.
Only way to get everything under one roof something, attitude is direct stereo, which you can hardly act on the bass here.

All in all, the card for my purposes more than disappointing, less well for those who want the whole use to gamble because they may play to their strengths, which I have not yet been tested and it will probably not.
I think then it will yet again be an X-Fi.