Our Overall Score:
9.4/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the PC speakers category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £210
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Creative or alternative products in the PC speakers category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker
CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker scores 9.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with PC speakers. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for PC speakers, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any PC speakers? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker scores 9.8/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the PC speakers category was £349.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £9.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the PC speakers category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the PC speakers category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the PC speakers category. This was £74.80 from the 36 products we found in that category. So CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker actually comes in above average at £210.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £349.00 and the least expensive, which was £9.99. In total we found that of the 36, 2 were more expensive and 33 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker.
Prices of products from Creative
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Creative. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Creative, which was £73.19 of the 5 products we found. So CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Creative was £22.99 with the most expensive coming in at £210.00.
Prices of products from Creative and in the PC speakers category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Creative that sit specifically within the PC speakers category.
For this we found that the average price was £81.49, making CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker at £210 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £210.00 with the lowest priced item being £22.99. In total there were 0 items that were more expensive and 3 that was less expensive.
Reviews of CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker
CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker scores 9.2/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker is.
Overall score
CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker scores 9.4/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Creative so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: CREATIVE Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker
- Brand: Creative
- Model Number: 10180813
- Number of speakers: 1With subwoofer for deep bassPower: 75 WConnectivity: Bluetooth
- EAN:
- Description: Top features: – Compact sound bar design for under monitors – Reactive lighting to create the perfect atmosphere – Expertly tuned acoustics for brilliant sound – Immersive & realistic audio for PC gaming – Wireless & wired connection options for easy setup Compact sound barMultiple monitor setups don’t leave much space for speakers. That’s why the Creative Sound BlasterX Katana 1.1 Sound Bar PC Speaker can be tucked neatly under your monitors or TV. It’s super compact, yet still delivers powerful sound so you can hear your enemy sneaking up on you.Reactive lightingThe soundtrack of your games and entertainment is brought to life with Aurora Reactive lighting. Programmable LED lights line the base of the sound bar edge to edge. With over 16 million colours, you can customise the ambience to create the perfect atmosphere for all your games and movies.Expertly tuned acousticsGood looks are nothing without great sound. The Katana houses a five-driver design, and because each driver is individually chambered and powered, you get ultra-precise audio that sounds realistic. The long-throw subwoofer delivers clean, powerful bass that reverberates through your bones.Immersive & realistic audioThe perfect pairing for your gaming PC, the Katana doubles as a sound card. Supporting Virtual 7.1 channel audio, it delivers realistic gaming effects with near-perfect accuracy and positioning when you hook it up via USB.Wireless & wiredYou’ve got a whole host of connection options with the Katana. Go wireless with Bluetooth, connect via USB to your PC, or use wired optical or aux connections. There’s also ports for mic in and a headset out so you can easily communicate with your team.
- Product ID: 22762114127
