Thread: Creative’s ZiiSound D5 analyze

Creative ZiiSound D5 promises to offer the convenience of wireless audio without committing the sin of compromise sound, and he just rudely nearby. If that surprises you, you will be surprised to learn twice that achieves this feat through blue tooth.

D5 is a stereo speaker sound bar type ZiiSound with a docking port for iPod and Bluetooth Blue Tooth dongle receiver can be connected to almost any model of iPhone, iPad, or the iPod. If you prefer to listen from a PC, Creative sells a $ 39 blue tooth USB dongle separately. And if you have another brand of media player built by idea that there may be a 1/8-inch auxiliary input on the back of the cabinet.

We’ve reviewed Blue tooth sound systems before and haven’t been impressed. The ZiiSound D5 is different. One of the key ingredients in Creative’s secret sauce is the third-party audio codec known as Apt-X Blue tooth. Apt-X encodes audio with 16-bit resolution at a 44.1kHz sampling rate and then compresses it at a 4:1 ratio for wireless streaming over a Blue tooth connection.

D5 hearing us play tracks encoded ZiiSound Apple loss less than one iPod connected directly to the D5 ZiiSound then the same tracks streamed through Creative Bluetooth connection. Surprisingly, we could not detect compression artifacts or other discomfort in the audio stream sounded so great.

IPod speaker docks wireless are far more convenient than the other. Who would not rather have your iPod to change tracks, adjust volume, or browse playlists instead of walking through the speaker and the manipulation of the controls on the iPod while docked?