Noise canceling headphones are not new to the market and we showed at least a couple of them in the past, but this time we took Creative’s Aurvana X-Fi for a test drive and will definitely tell you everything about it.

Weighing about 250 grams, with a great design using the black and silver scheme, these headphones use two AAA batteries and have on-ear controls to switch the device on and off or to adjust volume levels. But these are somehow standard, so why not get deeper and see why it would be worth it to buy and why wouldn’t.

PROs on the new Creative Aurvana X-Fi Noise Cancelling Headphones

• The noise canceling feature is great. It cancels out ambient noise really well and makes your music sound much more clearer.
• The “cans” are larger, extremely easy to wear and will offer the great comfort we all need when listening to music.
• Aurvana X-Fi is adjustable for a variety of different head sizes and comfort levels
• The X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity feature will restore detail and will expand your music and movies to surround sound.
• The X-Fi CMSS-3D feature is a virtual surround-sound effect that you’ll want to use with movies and games because it gives the sound a sense of physical depth
• The X-Fi Crystalizer feature really makes music sound better - it really does work with lossy files
• There’s the possibility to turn on and off the noise-canceling and other features.

Of course there are disadvantages so here’s what could have been built better:

• We would have appreciate a li-ion battery instead of two AAA even though it means it works just right after taking it out of the box
• The size and the weight of the headphones, are a big drawback. However I do agree that comfort and great noise-canceling need larger cans.

Price is somewhere at $300 so if you’re picky with your headsets, that would be a great solution.

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It’s that time of the month again when we get great products to review, and this time we got the Creative GigaWorks T20 to please our ears. They are a standard 2.0 speakers solution for desktop PCs that every gamer or computer user will appreciate because they offer quality sound at an affordable price. It’s the best in the GigaWorks brand so far, so you may want to stay on and read the rest.

With a sleek and eye-catching design, with a mid/low range driver and a high range tweeter, finished in smart dark metallic grey plastic with rounded corners, GigaWorks T20 speakers are pretty large. But, and there’s a but, wish they wouldn’t be THAT rounded. Might be a bit unstable. All in all, I like the looks really much, so let’s go on.

It has the Bass, Treble and Volume controls as well as the headphone jack and auxiliary-in (for easy connection to an MP3 player) on the right channel speaker. It also features a twin phono to 3.5mm adapter and a two metre 3.5mm cable for connection to a PC, so you can only imagine that game consoles or other devices can be linked to it, easily.

Though you may believe a 2.0 system without a subwoofer to give the bass that extra ‘oomph’ wouldn’t perform well, you got that wrong. Really wrong. Most of the time the subwoofer is usually responsible for problems involving poor bass and resulting in a lot of cross over between the speakers. This is why the GigaWorks T20 feature a porthole - dubbed a BasXPort by Creative - in the top of their slender, that will offer a fuller sound and compensating for a subwoofer.

The best thing about the Creative GigaWorks T20 is obviously the quality you get for its price. Some $80 in the US. You may want to buy that set of speakers yourself and see they’re great.

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