If you have been reading Neowin for any length of time, you may remember that I reviewed the Sound Blaster Audigy FX Pro back in April. I found it to be an excellent budget sound card, even though it lacked support for formats such as DTS over the included SPDIF port. Anyway, Creative reached out to me again asking if I was interested in reviewing the Sound Blaster AE-X. It is a card mainly targeted at headphone wearers, which I'll get into a bit later.

Before we get underway, here is a disclaimer: Creative Labs provided a free sample without any review pre-approval.

Here are the full specs of it:

Creative Sound Blaster AE-X

Dimensions: