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ASUS Xonar DSX PCIe 7.1 GX2.5 Audio Engine 192K/24bit
Playback Support Sound Cards
From Asus
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Product Description
ASUS Xonar team launched Xonar DSX, the highly-anticipated
PCI-E version of the award-winning Xonar DS 7.1 sound card, featuring GX2.5 for
immersive 3D audio effects, DTS: Connect that brings theatre to your desktop
and swappable op-amp sockets for greater audio personalization . The PCI-E
edition supports easier system upgrades and allows audio lovers to enjoy the
Xonar experience with great ease.
Product Details
Brand: Asus
Model: Xonar DSX
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 3.00" h x 7.00" w x 10.00" l, .95
pounds
Features
192k/24bit True PC Hi-Fi Enjoyment. Xonar DSX's 192kHz/24bit
playback support let you enjoy all music files converted at highest quality
without any sample rate downgrade.
Bring the Hi-Fi Theater to your desktop. Consisting of DTS
Neo: PC and DTS Interactive technologies, DTS Connect brings the world's most
welcomed Hi-Fi surround sound to your PC and turns it into a powerful multi-media
center and game console.
Immersive Gaming Audio. Feel enemies crawling behind you and
hear voices echo in dungeons with Xonar's immersive GX2.5 audio engine. Enable
latest EAX gaming audio, and restores surround gaming in Windows Vista without
additional software.
Auto-detect front-panel, Intel HDA compatible front-panel
header automatically switches output from back-panel to front once plugged in.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Not as good as I thought
By David
This was an upgrade from an old card (2002), I have to say
that sound quality is pretty good compared to both the old card and onboard
sound, after all asus has pretty good reviews on their past generation cards.
Thing is... I'm quite disappointed about the drivers, they
could be a lot better. First of all they seem as old as the drivers of my last
card.
You have to installed the drivers from the disc, because the
ones on the page won't work, and don't forget to run them with administrator
privileges or the installation will hang after about an hour of waiting.
Once the drivers are installed, you will get options to set
how many channels your input has and how many speakers you have (this is not
detected automatically like with other cards), for instance, if you have 5.1
speaker set up, then you'll have to set an output of 6 channels and an input of
2 channels to listen music and change the input to 6 channels if you're gonna
watch a movie or play a game with 5.1 support, then change it back to listen
music again... This can be kind of annoying after a while :/ specially if you
watch a lot of movies with 5.1.
If you connect some headphones in the front audio jacks they'll
be detected automatically and the drivers will set the output to headphones (don't
forget to set your input as two channels for music). But once you disconnect
them, the drivers won't set the output back to the speakers so you have to it
manually (I thought the card died because no sound was coming out of the
speakers but it was just this setting).
Hope this helps!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Great (low profile) soundcard for your HTPC
By D. Mungin
I purchased this sound card because the motherboard in my
HTPC doesn't have HDMI or optical out, but my sound system only accepts those
two methods for inputting audio. I needed a low profile soundcard, due to the
size of my HTPC case, but I didn't want to spend too much. The ASUS Xonar line
of cards fit my needs, so that is how I ended up with this card. I opted for
the DSX rather than the DGX because it can encode audio into DTS when
outputting via optical.
I was worried that adding a sound card to my system because
they always seem to have various incompatibility or stability issues. Despite
this, I'm happy to say that I haven't had any issues since installing the card.
I did initially install the card in a full size (16x) PCIe slot, and I had to
move it to a 1x slot before the PC would recognize it. I'm not sure why this
would matter...but look out for it if you are having issues with your install. As
far as the output, I'm no audiophile so I probably can't comment on any sound
quality increase or decrease seen when using this card over the motherboard's
integrated sound. It sounds good to me, but this probably has more to do with
my Sony sound bar than this card vs another.
The one downside (which has been brought up in other reviews)
is that the software for this card (and I assume other ASUS sound cards from
this line) looks terrible and is way too confusing. The interface looks similar
to an application I would have installed on windows 95, and I'm still not sure
if I have the correct settings selected for my setup. I got it to the point
where my sound system is showing the dolby symbol or DTS symbol when I watch TV
or movies...so I assume I am outputting a surround signal, which is what I want.
Having said all this, the bottom line is that there aren't
actually that many options for low cost and low profile audio card. For most of
us, on-board audio is probably good enough, but if you are reading this review
then obviously you probably have some random reason (like me) for needing an
add-in card. If that is the case, then don't hesitate to pick up this card. It
does the job well with little setup hassle and (in my experience) no stability
issues.
Update: I'm adding this update to my review because although
initially I thought I had avoided any of the stability issues sound cards are
known for, I was wrong. A short while after installing this card I started
getting BSODs about twice a week. For a while I ignored it as I was being lazy
and it wasn't happening enough for my to want to troubleshoot it. Eventually
however, it was happening enough that I looked into what was going on. Long
story short, it was the sound card drivers. Luckily, there are enough people
out there with similar issues that someone has developed open source drivers to
replace the faulty ones provided by ASUS. If you search the web for "ASUS
XONAR Unified drivers" you will find them. Once I got rid of ASUS's
drivers and installed these my BSODs were gone. Hopefully this information can
save someone the headache and troubleshooting I went through before finding a
fix.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Good sound card
By Nabi
I was looking for a good sound card for music and did some
researches on google.
I was original purchased sound blaster recond 3D. It was
sound good but its driver
was terrible. You can see many reviews on this card that
have the same Dolby digital
live broken problem. So i returned it and tried asus due to
good reviews.
I was interested in xonar stx but i noticed it was 2 years
old. So stx was released
for a little while now. So i went to xonar dsx as a spare
card while i am waiting
for asus to release a new great sound card for music. Actually
there is a good one
just released called Asus phoebus but it is more for gamming.
This xonar dsx has no problem with driver and is sound good
and even better if changing
op amp to LM 4562NA.
pros :
- Sound good and clear(recommend to change op amp to LM 4562NA).
- DTS connect
cons :
- When shuting down pc there are 2 static noises commong out
from speakers.
This does not happen to my onbouard sound.
See all 24 customer reviews...
A Beast!
Very Nice Upgrade
