Creative Outlier Gold SXFI Headphones Review

Peter Donnell / 5 years ago

A Closer Look

The Creative Outlier Gold are built for performance, but that doesn’t mean they can’t look fantastic too. Keep in mind, they’re bigger than most in-ear designs, as they have to house their own batteries, wireless technology, microphones, drivers, etc. However, despite that, I think the size is pretty impressive, and they’re certainly lighter than they look too. Being crafted from brushed aluminium certainly helps with that.

There’s a small logo on the side of each, but they’re pretty clean looking overall. I think the warm rose gold looks great too and contrasts well with the black on the back. Even if it does look like a liquorice allsort!

The earbuds are angled down, allowing them to anchor in your ear more. Of course, that’s needed, since there’s no headband, and while there’s no cable on them to pull them loose, they do still have other forces acting on them.

Built-in Microphone

Each of them features a small pinhole microphone. That’s pretty cool, as some headphones like this only have one, forcing either the left or right to be the one required to make calls. With this setup, you can use either as the main earbud, handy for those moments you only want to wear one.

Tucked away on the bottom edge, you’ll find a few connectors so you can dock them in the charger. No mucking about with cables for each earbud.

Charge on the Go

When it comes to charging, you have this lovely carry case. It’s finished in the same aluminium design as the earbuds too and looks fantastic.

Down one side, you can see the SXFI branding.

On the other, four small LED lights show if the left earbud is docked, charge low, power in, and right bud docked. Below that, a USB Type-C port to change the whole thing. There are 80 mAh batteries in the earbuds, offerings around 14 hours of usage. However, there’s a 450 mAh battery in the dock that can recharge them on the go.