Creative and Logitech use this year’s CeBIT, the in-house product portfolio to include new audio-streaming products for home use. Creative leaves it but not in pure data transfer in real time. Also, the systems shown value of the sound of the built-in X-Fi features 24-bit Crystalizer and CMSS-3D on request.

The systems featured at creative listen to the names of Xmod Wireless and Xdock and are largely identical in their essential features. While the Xmod Wireless signal of an any audio source connected to the line-in port to process and route, the Xdock represents the first creative docking station for Apple’s iPod series. To output the video signal of iPod video (5 g), it offers a composite, as well as an S-VHS output in addition to the dock connector. Transmitted by radio images can not however.

Both systems radio audio signals not via wireless LAN but also in the 2, 4 GHz range, which, as they can trigger Cordless DECT phones, is to be armed against errors. The range is well 30, outdoors in about 100 metres in the building. Up to four receiver units to the devices may be connected via analog and digital interfaces, can be supplied with data by a transmitter. The entire network infrastructure is controlled by remote control, where both the sender and the receiver take control signals contrary to. Recipients can also either individually or assigned in groups of certain zones, and separated by remote control on and off are.

The base stations of Xmod Wireless and Xdock will be available in may for about $199 in the trade, including a recipient. Additional receiver units, which are somewhat smaller and identical for both systems hit with 79 to 99 Euro record. All devices will appear in black and not – issued as on CeBIT – in white.

Photo Gallery “creative X-Fi audio-streaming” (6 pictures)

Logitech’s streaming solution listens to the name “Squeezebox”. It is new but only for Logitech but slim devices offers exactly same apparatus for months in Germany. Following the acquisition of slim devices by Logitech in 2006, the product will appear now also see the Logitech logo in the trade. In Hall 2, the manufacturer exhibits but still a “original” copy. Whether slim devices is set to the own sales of the Squeezebox, is still not known at present still.

The Squeezebox is used exclusively to the transfer and playback of audio content and will be sent by cable or Wi-Fi (IEEE 802. 11 g) involved in the local network. The output either via RCA, an optical digital output or digital coax port. There is also a headphone jack. Data can either be provided via a personal computer or loaded without running machines over the network from the Internet. Logitech provides a searchable database of over 9,000 online radios. The retail price will be 299 euro.

Photo Gallery “Logitech Squeezebox” (3 pictures)

Computer Base Test: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi