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15.10.2020

4/10

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Most motherboards have built in sound. This integrated audio is generally fairly good. If all you want is to listed to YouTube videos, play DVDs, and stream Netflix movies, integrated sound is entirely adequate. But, if you use your computer for more exacting listening, a good sound card is worth considering.

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.
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HAYAO

06.12.2020

8/10

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Хорошо

光デジタル端子はとても安定して聴けますます。 自分の場合ですとヘッドホンをジャックに繋いでも5.1chが入力されません。そもそも入力されない時もあります。光デジタル端子以外は安定して入力されません。
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。
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15.10.2020

10/10

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192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res 116dB SNR for $39. This kind of specs used to cost close to $200. The sound quality is top-notch. The only "high-end" feature it doesn't have is the RCA line output, which high-end soundcards provide. But because it has an optical output, adding a $20 DAC would complete the high end specs.

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.
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Dusko

06.12.2020

8/10

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XONAR SE 5.1 PCIe

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!
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15.10.2020

2/10

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ASUS Technical Support might be pretty good in general, but there is a glitch in their chat software that routes sound card question to Notebook agents. You cannot get to the sound card agent unless you ask for a supervisor. When I finally got to the agent, I found that there seems to be a two-minute clock ticking over their heads. I kept getting assigned to go check something on the computer (like re-seating the card) and finding that the agent was long gone. I tried three times doing various assignments. The last agent said to send it back to Amazon. I asked for an RMA and the agent did not seem to understand "Return Material Authorization."
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.
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Dylan Stanton

06.12.2020

10/10

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So first off, I love this thing and just installed it a few min ago. I originally needed SPIF out, which my 2019 mobo didn't include for some odd reason (also asus) Before I was taking audio (via HDMI) through a tv, to my sound bar, now it's direct. But wow, what a difference. The highs are crisp, the mids I can actually hear and the lows are more bold. Now, using a sound bar, I can only use 96000hz/24 bit. But thats using toslink, to a soundbar. When I connected my surround sound to it, I'm able to play my flac quality music at 19200hz/24. You won't get any sound if your equipment doesn't support it. As soon as I booted windows up, boom everything was working without the software.

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.
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15.10.2020

2/10

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ASUS XONAR SE 5.1 Channel 192kHz/24-bit Hi-Res 116dB SNR PCIe Gaming Sound Card with Windows 10 Compatibility installed in an HP i5 SFF PC running Windows 7 64 bit with minimal hardware and software.
(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.
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15.10.2020

2/10

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I'm trying to break away from Creative Labs products. This card was my first attempt to do so.

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.
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Glenn Weaver

06.12.2020

10/10

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Install for me was a breeze because I build desktops for a living.
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.
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15.10.2020

4/10

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I ordered this card because the motherboard's sound processor stopped sending sound to the surround right speaker. It is an ASUS Z370 motherboard, and this is an ASUS card.

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.
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Rust Never Sleeps

06.12.2020

10/10

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116 db Version:
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 !!
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15.10.2020

8/10

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Definitely a decent little card for anyone on a budget. However -- Xonar Audio Center is a terrible piece of software with horrible naming conventions. Here are just a few of the worst offenders:

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.
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15.10.2020

10/10

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I needed a new sound card for my old recently upgraded desktop computer I upgraded to Windows 10 and the old sound card did not work with Windows 10....but this ASUS sound card sure does work excellent on my desktop computer! Easy to install physically and software CD install was easy and within 5 minutes after installing sound card and software and restarting my computer....I had sound finally on my old upgraded Windows 10 desktop computer! 5 stars for excellent sound quality.
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15.10.2020

2/10

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I read this raving review for this product (here on Amazon, below the product info) and the guy says to just put the card in and go to the website, download software/drivers and that it's the best thing ever, especially for the price. Well, bull$4!+ it is. Found out that the drivers aren't really even ready for retail sale. Not for windows 10 at least (found through personal online research through reviews of said product) and that it sounds like crap even if it works for earlier windows versions. The optical out wouldn't even work. Next time I won't believe a review that looks like paradise, it's pretty much bound to be propaganda.
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15.10.2020

6/10

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 The software is fine just not the best. The sound seems very good though. But there is a huge problem with sound if you use power saver in Windows. See my video (hope it uploaded as I can't seen any preview above). You'll see the sound is complete borked if I used power saving mode. But if I change it to balanced or high performance the sound is normal again. Unforgivable as I like to listen to music when I go to bed and I don't want me pc to use up too much power.

Edit: Knocked off one star because the mic jacks were putting out horribly quality audio.
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15.10.2020

2/10

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After jumping through a bunch of hoops to get the Asus drivers installed, I was finally able to get the card to work but sound quality is bad and it stutters severely. Won't play youtube videos without the sound lagging every 10 seconds and listening to music it sounds like someone is moving the volume control up and down slightly at random intervals. Some research shows that this may have more to do with Windows 10 than the sound card itself but if ASUS can't keep their driver updated to work with my OS, what good is this card to me? Very disappointed.
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Lucas

06.12.2020

10/10

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The software is weird and unclear. Every time I turn my computer on it tells me I'll have to click "Speakers" to enable speakers and it defaults to headphones. Not sure why it doesn't just save previous settings.

I also wish you could flip the speakers or enable stereo fill mode like most other cards. Other than that no real complaints.
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15.10.2020

8/10

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It took a couple restarts before installing the drivers to get a clean install on Win10, but it was for the most part easy & seamless. I was hoping for better control of speakers on 5.1 over optical, but it the end it gives me no more control than the factory onboard audio on my MB.. But with that said, it's a great card & does have better seperation in games, & music is clean. It's worth every penny, so all I can do is hope they can muster some driver updates to utilize more of what the card has to offer in speaker control, even over optical into a good home receiver.
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C Marchetti

06.12.2020

8/10

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I got this card to replace the motherboard sound which no longer works. The hardware install and software setup was painless, the PCIe version of the card is detected as a USB device and works with the builtin USB audio driver on recent Linux (5.8.0 when I first bought this card and no issues with later upgrades).

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.
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15.10.2020

10/10

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It absolutely works in Ubuntu 18.04 and variants. Just one thing, open a terminal and type "alsamixer" and turn all those colored bars all the way up as they'll probably be half-way.

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.
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David G.

06.12.2020

8/10

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Bought this card to eliminate some RF noise problems experienced with integrated sound output. Had hoped a dedicated sound card would fix everything. 90% better though. Still hear the RFI when transferring files via USB hub.
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15.10.2020

10/10

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I have not had a discrete sound card since a Soundblaster 16 some time in the 90's. Onboard audio has been just fine to me all this time, until I got saddled with a very poor Realtek chipset on a Asrock Taichi z390 motherboard. Drivers were appallingly bad, especially for the mic. I contemplated a replacement motherboard, but instead of dropping $280 there, I thought $40 for a sound card would be the better option. It was definitely the right choice. Music was clearer and richer and ambient sounds in games like Red Dead Redemtion 2 or TheHunter were improved and more immersive. Adding this card has extended the life of my PC by several years in my mind.
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Padremellyrn

18.12.2020

10/10

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The soft ware itself didn't automatically install and set up, I did have to do a bit of manual operations to get the total output, but this is every bit as good as any SoundBlaster 5.1 that I have ever had, and beats the Startek 5.1 in flexibility. Once you get the soft ware install for Windows 10, there is a lot tweeking you can do to get your output the way you want. There is so many 'options' it takes a bit playing to get the top working output but worth.
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
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15.10.2020

4/10

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This is an average sound card at best. I am in the process of building a rack mount PC for my DJ setup and am looking for a good low profile sound card that can at least match my years old sound blaster Omni USB sound card and this isn’t it. The software like most cards including my Omni is absolute garbage, looks like a 8 year old new to programming made it. the headphone amp built in is nothing special and the volume on max in really low and lacks punch. Really unimpressed. It’s marginally better than my mobo’s built in audio but doesn’t live up to the hype ASUS prints on the box. Epic fail for music uses.
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