Though the product is successful in
reproduction of sound space, fire and bomb effects, it has not created the
sharp of broken glass effect and the whistled bullets sound.
Creative
Sound Blaster Tactic3D Alpha headphones review
Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Alpha and
Tactic3D Sigma are the two headphone models designed specifically for gamer,
both are released at the same time.
Compared to the brother Tactic3D Sigma,
Tactic3D Alpha does not have much change in appearance design. This headset
also has powerful, luxurious rough black design, it covers the head and
embraces the user’s ears.
The highlight of this headset is the
TruStudio Pro THX - integrated surrounded sound technology, promising
360-degree sound space for playing game and watching movies with stereo sound.
The highlights of Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Alpha
Loadspeaker dimension: 40mm
Component of speaker: Neodymium magnet
Frequency: 20Hz - 20,000
Micro supports removing noise from
environment
Straight cable against disorder
Weight 232grams
General comments
Advantages
The quality of the bass notes is
impressive.
Quite good sound space
Designed for comfortable using
Application software supports many features
and is easy to use.
Disadvantages
The high range of sounds is not very high.
Leather earphones cause hot in long-term
use.
Mark: 8.0
Design
Design
Though Tactic3D Alpha is quite big, its
main components are hard plastic so that it is very lightweight (about 232
grams). Compared to Tactic3D Sigma, Creative has a small change in the hardware
design of Tactic3D Alpha to reduce production costs. Specifically, 2 speakers
with rare earth magnets (Neodymium) of Tactic3D Alpha have the size of 40mm,
while the Tactic3D Sigma model is integrated 50mm diameter speakers. However,
Tactic3D Alpha still satisfies the frequency range from 20 to 20,000 Hz and is
also equipped with microphone, which is supported removing noise from
environment feature in the left ear.
Though it does not support different angles
rotation as other headphone models, users can remove integrated microphone of
Tactic3D Alpha or customize recording location as the user want easily.
Tactic3D Alpha headphones are big and
embrace the whole user’s ears. Tactic3D Alpha looks quite luxurious with
artificial leather covers.
Tactic3D
Alpha headphones are big and embrace the whole user’s ears.
The handsfree dome is also made of hard
plastic and can increase or decrease according to the different sizes. Inside
the dome, there is a cover by a thin layer of artificial leather like 2 ears.
With a lightweight design and a swivel between the dome and ears, Tactic3D
Alpha promises to bring maximum comfort for gamers even when “fighting” for
several hours.
Alpha Tactic3D is also integrated the input
volume control and microphone on/off button on the cable. In addition, users
will be very comfortable by flat cables, it against trouble more efficient than
normal cables. If you already have Sound Blaster sound card of Creative in
computer, you can connect Tactic3D Alpha directly to this sound card via a
traditional 3.5 mm input jack.
Conversely, if you do not have Creative
sound card and also feel dissatisfied with the quality of integrated sound
card, you can use compact sound card using USB connector to process better
surrounded sound for this headset.
Features
Main
interface
To get the best sound quality, we listen to
Tactic3D Alpha with attached sound card. The operations to connect Tactic3D
Alpha to the computer is simple, users just need to plug the sound card into a
vacant USB port on your computer, then connect the headset with two 3.5 mm
input jack on sound card.
Users do not need to install any driver for
Tactic3D Alpha. By default, your computer will automatically recognize the
device and set the music on the discrete sound card. However, Creative offers
the application of “Sound Blaster Tactic (3D) Control Panel” - allows users to
customize the sound effects through a modern touch control.
After many running hours with many kinds of
music to ensure the device works well, as well as performance of the headset
is at best, we and Tactic3D Alpha play through some game action as Batllefiled:
Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Left for Dead 2. First comments when
using Tactic3D Alpha is its comfort by the lightweight design. The swivel to
connect the dome to the ears proved very effective in reducing the direct
impact force to the listener’s ears. The leather cover on 2 ears looks pretty
and luxurious, but it is only suitable for use in cool environment.
Removing/assembling microphone on Alpha Tactic3D ears is easier than Creative
Fatal1ty Mark II headset.
The integrated controller on cable has
reachable design, it’s quite comfortable to increase/decrease the input volume
level of the headset. However, the on/off microphone buttons are designed to be
quite small and dim, so there is a bit hard to manipulate if users do not take
eyes off the screen.
On sound quality, Tactic3D Alpha sound is
warm because of rare earth magnet speakers. In the big battles as well as in
the home gun battle, Tactic3D Alpha really gives a lively sound space and a
very real sense. The separated audio channels of Tactic3D Alpha are quite
effective in the action game at first perspective.
Tactic3D Alpha performs very well the bombs
effects and the roar of the heavy motor vehicles. However, sometimes the high
sound range of this headset is dim. Broken glass effect, bullet whiz by
Tactic3D Alpha are still not really “sharp” as expected. In the online battle,
we do not encounter any obstacles with the integrated microphone of Tactic3D
Alpha. The feature to remove noise in noise environments of Tactic3D Alpha
works well, it’s suitable for gamers in need of concentration.
“Sound Blaster Tactic (3D) Control Panel”
application has quite intuitive interface and is easy to use. Gamers will have
many different options such as increase/decrease the echo, the severity of the
bass notes or the balance of different pre-installed sound... In particular,
this application supports touch controls if you own a touch screen and
pre-installed Windows 7 computer. However, gamers should be noted that this application
only works if the user uses Tactic3D Alpha comes with a sound card.
Not only works well on Windows computers,
Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Alpha is also compatible with the Mac using
10.5 OS or higher versions.
