Comments on: Creative makes multiroom wireless audio setup more affordable

Creative announces Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook card and the Creative Wireless Receiver for wireless.

[moshelinho]

u didnt mention anything about how creative announced it, they invited the press on the 17th of September, much like how Apple announced the "Let's Rock" event, and showed a teaser of a picture showing X-Fi on it.

the press and the fans were certainly disappointed with such a tactic and personally i feel its a desperate attempt by creative to gain some lost popularity again.

[BenFlavoredCandy]

$70 seems a bit steep for a streaming audio product. While it is much less than the Sonos, I could get an Airport to stream from iTunes for $99, plus it will be my router and my print server. Yes, I know it is a lower quality stream, but if you're that concerned with sound quality, chances are you aren't playing mp3s anyway.

[xfi]

Hopefully, they can make it more affordable for the mass market and also make it more useful by integrating it with their speakers, mp3 players and so on. There's wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, wireless router. I think it will also become a norm for wireless audio too. I hope they can also make wireless video one day and bring back 3DLabs.