When it comes to a good sound, the problem of choice always arises. There is a huge number of brands, in different budgets, with different technical and design solutions. But in the end, everything comes down to the fact that you will like most as in terms of sound and price.
Today on the agenda we will have a Soundbar for the TV from Creative. And it will be affordable, but a very high quality and interesting purchase solution. Moreover, Creative has already been serving his honorable place among the leaders of the audio engineering market for wide masses.
The review will be involved in the Creative Stage Air, which is slightly different from the original model, as it does not have an external subwoofer and there is a couple of small simplifications of structures, but the price tag is that you can only rejoice at this magnificence. We will not talk about the exact prices, because in our country, we have long forgotten about what stable price tags are, and you yourself will find relevant prices at the time of reading this review. So, let's finally begin to look at Creative Stage Air. And we begin, as it should be, with unpacking!
Unpacking Creative Stage Air
Before us is a rectangular box of good dense cardboard, and even with pretty pretty design. Typography, as it should be at a high level. The informativeness of everything that is printed on the box is also excellent. Here we immediately see and how Soundbar looks like, and its features, and the possibility of connection.
The package is quite modest, although another will be expected here and do not have to. Inside the box, we see the Soundbar itself directly, the USB cable, audio cable and a little waste paper. All by classic scheme and nothing superfluous.
More here in unpacking not to look at what, so we turn directly to the saudbaro itself.
Design and appearance Creative Stage Air
This device is visually strongly similar to the original Creative Stage Air, but only dimensions are smaller. The design is beautiful in its rigor and simplicity. On the front side, we have a protective grid with the Creative logo in the center. The rest of the body is made of black glossy plastic, which can be called a very controversial solution, but it looks very good. But still traces from fingers, dust, as well as minor scratches from frequent wipes from dust - all this will be here.
The shape of this column, of course, is made in such a way that it is perfectly placed at the base of the TV, monitor and other pieces with screens.
On the right end, we can find rubberized control keys. It is intuitive, easy and relaxed. Pressing the keys without much effort.
On the rear panel, we see a special "compartment" with all physical interfaces for connecting, which are available in this column.
On board there are USB Type-a port, microUSB port for power and AUX. Everything is quite simply nontrivial, and the location of the ports in one heap - can be called an excellent solution, because the cables will be easier to put it, and it should not have to look. Well, the glossy plastic of the case does not scratch, because there is a special matte ABS plastic, which will handle everything that you prepare him.
Based on there are two rubberized legs, the functionality of which is difficult to challenge. They will not allow the column to ride over the surface, and also perfectly quench the vibration during sound.
In work
Of course, that on board the Creative Stage AIR there is also a wireless connection to the sound source. And for this use Bluetooth version 4.2 with SBC codec. We will not even talk about the connection process, because it's all trivially, and each of you knows how it is done.The connection is the maximum stable, interference, filing and large delays during operation you will never hear. You can even manage the playback of sound without getting your smartphone from your pocket.
Be sure to clarify that the Creative Stage Air is quite an autonomous portable column, because there is a battery with a capacity of 2200 mAh. And on one charge, it will work up to 6 hours at the highest volume level.
To the same, I will definitely add the player built into the column, which is friendly with all popular audio formats and can read everything that you want from external media.
And once again we want to say that the sound quality is a very subjective concept. Each person has its own hearing, their preferences and all that. Therefore, before buying, it is still recommended to first listen to any audio engineering on our own, and never rely on all sorts of reviews like ours. After all, one thing, if the sound like us, but it is important that you like it for you (no matter how stupid it would be foolish).
Well, we can say with confidence that Creative Stage Air is entirely fully satisfying the quality of your sound. And we can say a clean heart that the sound quality very much liked. The sound can be described as very saturated, accurate and even "alive." The column copes well with low frequencies, which is very pleasant to think on watching any militants. Yes, and I also liked the music, therefore, therefore, the volume of volume is sufficient here, and even the effect of volumetric sound is. In general, with sound, in our opinion, everything is fine. And how could it be different if this is a product from Creative? Still, this brand for dozen years of their existence never did bad things.
Conclusions about Creative Stage Air
Despite the fact that the Creative Stage Air belongs to the budget segment and is quite modest money, the sound quality here is very high. Yes, the battery is on board, which allows the column without connecting to the network. And autonomy is solid, and the built-in player is also there. To this everything we add a wonderful and strict appearance. Therefore, Creative Stage Air is absolutely accurately considered as a good addition to a computer, a monoblock or TV. Well, or if you are a special estret, then as a conventional Bluetooth speaker is also suitable.
Of the minuses, it can be noted that the glossy building, which will not be happy for a long time to please you with your glitter. Well, in the rest, Creative Stage Air is an excellent choice if you are puzzled by buying a saunbar for sane money.