Creative Zen Hybrid: Get Your Zen Before Others

Pre-launch giveaway of Creative’s latest wireless headphones with Hybrid ANC

SINGAPORE – 17 May 2022 – Creative Technology is lining up the launch of Creative Zen Hybrid, which packs in a slew of features as a choice daily go-to headphone solution for users to stay in the zone while on the go. As a prelude to the launch on 8 June 2022, Creative will be giving away 100 units through an exclusive raffle organized for fans.

Key Features of Creative Zen Hybrid

Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation (ANC)

With feedforward and feedback microphones on each earcup, the Hybrid ANC technology cancels up to 95% of environment noise. Vocal clarity is enhanced for calls through an additional noise-cancelling microphone.

Ambient Mode

Users can stay aware of the environment where needed, be it for safety while on busy streets, or for convenience when ordering drinks at a café.

40 mm Neodymium drivers

Expertly tuned by Creative’s in-house engineers for a warm sound signature with accurate bass and crisp, clean highs, the Zen Hybrid is well-balanced to suit a wide variety of genres.

Long battery life, super-quick charging

The Zen Hybrid is a marathon-level headphone, lasting up to 37 hours (with ANC enabled) and up to 27 hours (with ANC disabled). It also provides five hours of playback with just five minutes of charging.

Ideal as a daily carry-on

Sporting a slim profile, the Zen Hybrid is lightweight, foldable with 90° swivel earcups and easily stowed away in a carry pouch.

SXFI READY

The Zen Hybrid is a SXFI READY headphone; users can enjoy a free preview version of the award-winning Super X-Fi technology through the SXFI app, and enjoy holographic audio on local music content inside their phones.

100 units for fans

The Zen Hybrid will be launched at the price of US$98.99; Creative is giving away 100 units to its fans, who can also look forward to exclusive discounts. Interested users can sign up here.

About Creative

Creative is a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products. Famous for its Sound Blaster® sound cards and for driving the multimedia revolution - which established a user base of 400 million - Creative drives digital entertainment with cutting-edge audio solutions that include premium wireless speakers, wireless headphones, powerful audiophile-grade digital amplifiers and next-generation home-theatre systems. Aiming at the new mobile networked generation by bridging the worlds of the computer, smartphones, and tablets, Creative continues to reinvent the Sound Blaster, with its ground-breaking Sound Blaster Roar series and USB-audio class of products such as the Sound Blaster X7.

In 2016, Creative unveiled the X-Fi Sonic Carrier: a brand-new concept in hi-res audio and video delivery for home entertainment. This technology powerhouse dubbed ‘the soundbar of the gods' personifies the Audio of Tomorrow.

In 2018, Creative launched an all-new game-changing technology for headphones called Super X-Fi® Headphone Holography. This technology uses computational audio to recreate the listening experience of a high-end multi-speaker system in a professional studio, and delivers the same expansive experience - with the same original depth, detail, realism, and spaciousness - in headphones. Super X-Fi further uses Artificial Intelligence to compute a custom audio profile based on a person's unique anthropometry. Super X-Fi has won multiple accolades worldwide, including an unprecedented 23 awards at CES 2019-2020.

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