ASUS Xonar Essence STX, nice sound card with SNR up to 124dB

12 Responses to “ASUS Xonar Essence STX, nice sound card with SNR up to 124dB”

1. Hok Says:
   October 20th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

   Creative X-FI 2 everyone?

2. Vl-r Says:
   October 26th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

   the Most Beautiful PC Audio Piece Ever. The degree of dissapointment of purchasing the X-FI elite pro is Unbelievable… Although I don’t know if the music of such quality exhist))

3. Aleyer Says:
   October 27th, 2008 at 1:54 am

   Well, the specifications are amazingly good but… does anyone really need such good ones? I don’t think that I lose something in terms of enjoyment from music if I don’t change my Audiotrak Prodigy HD2 for Asus Dynamic range of 124dB compared to 112dB of HD2 and 0.0003% THD+N distortion compared to 0.0054% of hand-made headphone amplifier is an achievement, but as Vl-r said here comes the problem in quality of recordings, that will totally depreciate this achievement.

4. Kenshin Says:
   October 29th, 2008 at 12:33 am

   My 24bit/192khz flacs disagree with you.

5. josh Says:
   October 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

   lol hififag

6. Steve Says:
   November 7th, 2008 at 10:24 pm

   @ Kenshin, 24/192Khz Flacs made from what source?

7. Steve Says:
   November 7th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

   As for the music quality, 24/192 audio is indeed hard to come by. That doesn’t meant those high quality files are the only ones this card will make sound good.
   It will still have a very high SNR and Dynamic range in both 16/44.1 and 16/48 audio formats which are used all the time. The higher the SNR and dynamic range and less distortion the better.

8. wolf Says:
   November 30th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

   300 buks & shes yours

9. Mark Says:
   March 6th, 2009 at 3:11 am

   How about timing? I’m interested in the quality of those DACs, that is where a big gain can be had!

10. Kelainefes Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    @Mark:
    The DACs are Burr-Brown’s PCM 1792A, you can google that and you’ll find the spec sheet.
    If you want the short version, they’re unbelieavably good and unless you got some silly expensive speakers, amps and room treatment (I’m talking over 100.000 dollars investments), they will not be a limit for the sound quality.

11.  PCSO Lotto Result Says:
    August 16th, 2010 at 2:15 am

    actually the ipod needs some headphone amplifier if you really want some great bass’;*

12. Kitchen Units · Says:
    November 8th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    some headphone amplifiers use negative feedback to reduce the noise levels ..

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