Sound Blaster X7 preview: Creative Labs aims to make PC audio interesting again

Creative Labs wants people to fall in love with PC audio again. That's a challenging task at a time when even gamers who drop big bucks on video-card upgrades think of sound cards as anachronisms. Creative's strategy: Cover all the bases with a new family of USB audio devices and headphone amps ranging in price from $50 to $400. I'll start with the most ambitious new product in the family, the Sound Blaster X7, which Creative product manager Ryan Schlieper demoed for me on Wednesday. The audacio...