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Alternative to the Sound Blaster E5?

1.9K views 3 replies 3 participants last post by  plyr  
#1 ·
I just picked up a Creative Sound Blaster E5 Amp/DAC and am beyond disappointed with it. Even with nothing plugged into it or being paired to anything the background hiss is awful. Plugging it into my phone via USB takes it to an entirely new level of suck. Then I can hear new noises that change with the CPU load.

What sold me on the device to begin with was I figured it could do double duty. I wanted to use it as a bluetooth receiver for watching TV in bed at night. During the day I wanted to get better audio out of my phone using the USB port. Are there any other devices on the market that could do both those things?
 
#4 ·
I have a G5, and the noise that come out of the amplified port is something that is only audible with a very sensible in-ear and is similar to noise I listen to on other devices as well like the gsx1200 from sennheiser.

Also, sounds changing with cpu load is not normal.