$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best

2008-04-09 09:40:22

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jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6794|...

http://slashdot.org/ wrote:
"Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl … /08/222220
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14500

2008-04-09 09:47:37

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Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7115|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Great news.

When one company has a monopoly on certain types of hardware, it's always a bad thing.

And since it's PCI-E it's even better, since I have a PCI-E 1x slot above my 16x slot, so I can fit a sound card there to make plenty of room for a HR-03 for my vid card

2008-04-09 10:04:54

#3

heggs: Spamalamadingdong; +581|6660|New York

Nice, this is definitely not a bad thing.

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2008-04-09 10:06:02

#4

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6469|Winland

Like.

Although, I'm not looking to replace my SoundBlaster Live(s) for some time. Still does the job, old relics from the time before Creative went bad.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2008-04-09 10:44:51

#5

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6725|The Twilight Zone

DX2 is also out. But I'm getting this next week:
http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?product=15185

Review here:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/pro … 4-usb.html

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2008-04-09 11:07:03

#6

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6686|Finland

Awsome. finally a good pci-e sound card. Although I'm so happy with my current audigy that I won't need this atm. Thanks to PCI-e I wouldn't have to use pci sound card that gets grilled next to my gfx card.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2008-04-09 11:33:51

#7

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6891|Mhz

I may have to get me one of these as this X-Fi quite frankly is rather un-inspiring (it is the cheapest one so I wasn't expecting much anyway lol).

2008-04-09 16:10:49

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[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober: mmmm...Toasty!; +91|6993|Oregon

i wouldnt say it whips creatives best...the xtreme music is far from creatives best. and tbh, m-audio has been putting out considerably better stuff for years. noone else is puttin stuff out that handles 48bit....

2008-04-09 16:13:29

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DUnlimited: got any popo lolo intersting?; +1,160|6735|cuntshitlake

Competition is ALWAYS wanted. Me likey!

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2008-04-09 16:15:38

#10

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6725|The Twilight Zone

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
i wouldnt say it whips creatives best...the xtreme music is far from creatives best. and tbh, m-audio has been putting out considerably better stuff for years. noone else is puttin stuff out that handles 48bit....

Audigy 2 ZS can handle 32 bits if modded correctly (only software). Btw where can i get some quality audio (48 bits?). Send me a PM.

2008-04-09 16:47:48

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jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6794|...

[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
i wouldnt say it whips creatives best...the xtreme music is far from creatives best. and tbh, m-audio has been putting out considerably better stuff for years. noone else is puttin stuff out that handles 48bit....

I agree with that statement. But it is good to finally good to see the eye of sauron fixed on creative. /nerd moment

2008-04-09 16:57:01

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Gooners: Wiki Contributor; +2,700|6904

jsnipy wrote:
[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober wrote:
i wouldnt say it whips creatives best...the xtreme music is far from creatives best. and tbh, m-audio has been putting out considerably better stuff for years. noone else is puttin stuff out that handles 48bit....
I agree with that statement. But it is good to finally good to see the eye of sauron fixed on creative. /nerd moment

lulz

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