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For a good many years, my favorite sound card has been the Asus Xonar DG card. It sounds excellent and it served my needs fine. With Microsoft dropping support for Windows 7, it was inevitable that I would have to upgrade to Win 10. Unfortunately, my Xonar DG card was incompatible with Win 10. I did eventually find new drivers at the Asus site, and was able to restore functioning sound on my other computer. In the meantime, I could no longer find the DG model at a decent price, for my other Win 10 machine. So, I went with the Asus Xonar SE model here at Amazon.
I was bitterly disappointed. The drivers installed in Win 10, but the card and software control panel are total trash. I spent a good deal of time with both and found the control software to be nearly useless. Basic functions like the equalizer are hidden and difficult to use. The control panel was designed by idiots. In particular, the equalizer is stupidly designed. As you boost, say 5 khz, the equalizer LOWERS all other frequencies bands simultaneously! Setting your equalizer is like playing Whack-A-Mole.
I concluded that the Xonar SE is a bad design. Also, there is some kind of issue in the chips or software. I heard a fairly constant pumping effect (the music getting louder and softer, from moment to moment). It sounded like the "breathing effect" associated with dynamic compressors and the like. Just awful.
It's worth knowing that the overall sound and volume levels of my computer improved when I returned to my integrated audio on the motherboard. One curious thing, is that the chips on the board are not labeled. Just blank chips. It makes me wonder. Well, I'm sending this back.
By the way, for those who still favor the Xonar DG, I discovered that eBay has five or six available at any given time for about the same money.

ドライバーをインストールするとき全て英語表記だったのでとても怖かったです。

On Windows 10, the card works without installation of any software. The operating system recognizes the device automatically.
However, it is important to install the Asus driver and software anyway. Asus proprietary driver makes a huge difference in signal-to-noise ratio. The card is actually quite nosy running Windows generic driver. Clearly, signal-to-noise ratio is not just a matter of hardware, but also software (probably both the driver and the signal processor). The software has a management console in addition to the driver.
Also, it's better to download the latest from Asus website, instead of using the CD that comes with the device.

So far so good. I didn't have any issues installing it in Windows 10.
This is what I did BEFORE installing the card in my PC:
1. Log into Windows and uninstall Sound Card drivers from Device Manager.
2. Turn off PC and go into the BIOS, disable integrated sound. (Save and exit BIOS)
3. Turn off PC and install the card.
4. Log into Windows, download newest drivers from ASUS and install them. (I didn't touch the CD that comes with it).
5. Reboot, that's it.
As a previous reviewer mentioned, it seems that there's a USB chip in it, actually, if I hold the mouse pointer on the speakers icon from the taskbar, it says "Speakers (USB)". Now, I don't know for a fact if that slows down the PCIe functionality to a USB speed. If so, that's really bad, misleading and wrong. No idea, but it seems to work fine, anyway, that's not an excuse if they're not supposed to use a USB chip on a PCIe device!
Sound:
I have a small Fifine 4 channel stereo mixer where I connect a bunch of audio equipment (including the line out from the card), all that is connected to my old but good powered Altec Lansing speakers. Turned the volume all the way up from the computer, mixer and speakers and couldn't hear any static noises, hiss, hums, nothing! Very impressed! Actually I put my ears to the speakers and couldn't hear a thing!! Be careful if you try that, a sound notification from Windows can give you a very unpleasant surprise, also, that will not be healthy for your audio equipment.
The sound seems pretty flat (which is a very good thing). If I need some EQ, I'll do it myself! BTW, the EQ, FX, ambience or whatever you want to call them, are all turned off by default, another very good thing.
I tested it with a few YouTube videos and a couple of audio files in Audacity, haven't tested a mic, or any advanced audio stuff. It seems to do what is supposed to, haven't noticed any lag. I'm not into surround sound so that's that. The front panel port works as expected. I'll update when I do some other tests.
As per Windows Sound settings, the SPDIF out only does 2 stereo channels up to 24bit 192KHz. So it will NOT output digital 5.1 surround, you will have to use the analog audio connections for that. Anyway, found this in Wikipedia: "S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1/7.1 surround sound (such as DTS audio codec)". So, I don't care if it doesn't output SPDIF 5.1 compressed sound, but, that's me.
User Interface (UI) seems fine to me, nice, simple, clean and straight forward.
Hope this helps!

The problem with the card was that it could not handle audio streaming. Every two seconds is stops playing audio for ten seconds. I doubt there is any thing wrong with the card. There probably is a simple explanation for the problem, but I seem to be out of luck with these agents. So I will send it back and try a different card, different manufacturer. Irritating.

Just remember, a secondary card always will carry better quality than what is built in, no matter the cost. The chip can be fine, but the integration is terrible, and quality suffers. This sound card fixes it. Added bonus, you can connect your front panel sound to the card! my old soundblaster didn't offer that.

(The package included a low profile bracket and the card itself is low profile but came with a full height bracket)
The instructions on the included standard size CD say install the card, then install the driver. I tried installing the driver first and the installer was smart enough to report the card missing and halt. After installing the card, the driver appeared to complete successfully and required a reboot. After reboot, an icon for the card's control software had appeared on the desktop. The card appeared in Windows Device Manager with no issues. However, the Xonar management software reported "no card" and I couldn't get any audio output from any of the ports and no illumination of the SPDIF port. The optical port was the only reason I purchased the card and I couldn't confirm if the port is even provisioned.

Installation was straightforward; software and driver installation was simple, although I found the software to be pretty lightweight with no way to apply EQ.
Then yesterday & today the card just stopped emitting sound in the middle of a Windows session. Sound could only be restored by restarting the PC.
Amazon approved its return and it's going back tomorrow.
Disappointed.

IT me less then 5 Mins to install them I went to ASUS's website and downloaded the lhe latest software sounds awesome.
I had to add a sound this sound card to my ASUS Rog Gmaers motherboard Crosshair Formula V AMD Board, I just had to move my Asus Video Card over to access the PCI Express slot because the other one is being used by a wireless card I installed last year.

Uninstalled the motherboard sound drivers. Installed the card. As soon as I powered up the speakers, but not the computer, I heard thumping in the left and surround left speakers.
Booted, installed the drivers, made all the volume changes I wanted to make -- problem persisted.
Moving the router around alleviated the problem some, but it still goes on. This never happened when the sound was driven from the motherboard.
The software isn't the most intuitive or useful software, either. It is organized strangely, forcing you to go back and forth dozens of times during calibration, and it doesn't allow for setting speaker distances.
Overall, while I now again have a full set of surround speakers, I'm very disappointed in this purchase. I installed the card too late to return it, but I will probably look for a different card and eat the cost of this one.

Easy install into DELL Optiplex 9020 SFF -- comes with Short Bracket for SFF machines.
Windows 10 PRO allows for easy set-up.
Sound quality is excellent throughout the range of music types -- from Rock to Reggae.
The 116 db version handles gaming sound very well -- surprisingly good, with reliable XONAR quality.
I will buy another one for my wife's Dell Vostro -- good stuff !!

Xear Audio Brilliant (with a "Brilliant Level" slider from 1-5)
Xear Surround Max II
Xear SingFX
Any guess as to what the above settings do to the audio input? Me neither. And the software tells you absolutely nothing, so have fun digging around in the manual or support forums to find out. So to prospective buyers: be warned -- with budget hardware comes budget software, but if you are willing to put up with it, the card itself is fine.



Edit: Knocked off one star because the mic jacks were putting out horribly quality audio.


I also wish you could flip the speakers or enable stereo fill mode like most other cards. Other than that no real complaints.


The only setup issue is that the default volume assigned by ALSA is about 40%, so the sound was usually quiet and required boosting volumes in applications beyond 100%. Once I corrected this the volume range and audio quality on recording and playback has been great.

I had a very old M-Audio Revolution 7.1 I payed like ~$70 for and let me tell you...technology has advanced. This card is a few miles ahead of that old card. Ultra-clear audio with zero noise. I'm happy.



You do have to a bit of technical skills to get it to the control center installed and some of the options are not 'intuitively obvious', but it is easy to change options and try different set ups, and even configure the speakers in stereo, Quadrophonic or 5.1, and even allows for 7.1 configuration if have the speakers for it. Cables are color coded for easy of installation in the 5.1 speaker set up.
Good price, good quality, and it does work with windows 10

