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Sound reproduction is great, but every now & then it will crash the PC when you stop music, which lost it another star. It also crackles a bit when you pause and restart music from MusicBee, which always makes me expect another blue screen. Sometimes when it crashes it does so repeating the last few microseconds of output like a buzzsaw, which has you wincing and reaching for the off-switch. I haven't looked into resolving the issue myself yet, so I'm not going to rubbish it further, especially as the onboard sound on my motherboard is fried, so it's that or nothing.
I have compared both these "DACS/AMPS" driving Grado SR60i & AKG K701 headphones and at a matched volume level. I cannot honestly say that I could not identify any significant difference between the two. However, the essence one comes into it's own when used as a full blown pre amp driving running into a full blown Hi-Fi system with power amp and speakers, but as a headphone amp I'd go for the DG every time purely based on price / performance ratio. If only want to run headphones, look no further and don't waste your money on overhyped products costing £100's if not £1000's more.
I must stress that the drivers and Audio Centre software need to be properly installed and configured to get this card to sing, but once it does, you will be pleased you didn't spend any more!
Here is a great article about how our brains tell us something is better because we want it to be, its called "cognitive bias", we are all biased by the price tag but in reality, it's about what it actually sounds like to you that counts and not the price tag. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/high-end-pc-audio,3733-10.html
Running W7 x64 SP1 with all the latest BIOS, latest drivers, latest updates for all my kit, also tried safe-mode and many, many other things too. I even tried the 3rd party UNIxonar drivers,. nothing worked. I did all I knew how and it steadfastly maintained a stubbornness I've not experienced in hardware installation, (software primarily, but you get what I'm saying).
I've had it with Asus,.. really fed up with them. The annoying thing is that I'm not even happy with Creative either,. they're just as inept and lazy as Asus; both their drivers and software, (Asus and Creative alike), are bloody AWFUL - what's even MORE frustating is that these two firms are supposed to be the best! Disgraceful!
So once again I'm back to using the on-board audio,.. which is terrible, but at least it works!
2. It would not allow my computer Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit to shutdown and could only be closed by pulling the plug! 3. Updates from Asus website failed to install. Finally Asus customer services were very polite and quick to respond offered no real solution.
The ASUS DG card is inexpensive and supports a front panel connection, so I ordered one.
The first one was faulty (not detected in any PCI slot despite care taken to observe anti-static precautions) and replaced without quibble by Amazon. The second one installed flawlessly, first time, having of course first disabled the onboard soundcard via the BIOS utility.
My pleasant surprise has been the staggering difference in sound quality both compared to the onboard sound card ("wooden") and also a Creative Soundblaster Audigy card (nothing special) that I used until recently in another PC, in the same location, with the same Creative 5.1 amplifier and speakers. Sure, it is not a patch on high end HiFI kit, but music is surprisingly, well, musical - and enjoyable for it. 5.1 imaging from true surround sound source is also more precise than with the other cards.
Very happy.
For 20 quids this is an excellent replacement - I don't do gaming and flashy stuff so I just need a good quality sound card and this fits the bill.
Installation was simple and took about 15 minutes from the time I put the card into its slot. No trouble with drivers but NOTE: The Asus installation guide tells you not to let Windows try and find drivers. Cancel the Windows auto-seek and go straight to the supplied utility disc. Let it do its own loading and you are away.
One point to mention: if you are recording from the computer (eg Wavepad or similar) that software will not recognise an input until you go to the Control Panel and set 'Asus Wave' as the default. Why wave I don't know but it works fine.
Would recommend.
In order to get this to work however, I had to use 3rd party drivers as it was not working with windows 10 and this is the major problem with this product. It is easy enough to fix as you can simply google "Asus Xonar DG windows 10" and you will be directed to the fix but this should not be needed. Hopefully this will be sorted soon and then I will update my review to 5 stars.
Pros:
Price
Sound quality
Cons:
Drivers
The headphone amp is a bonus and the quality though a high end pair of 'phones is excellent.
Why pay more? This does all you need for a very sensible price
In terms of sound quality, its A LOT BETTER then the on-board sound especially in games. I always found games sounded a little flat from the onboard sound chip. Compared to the audigy....I still prefer the sound from the creative sound card...maybe its just me.
I encountered an issue with the card which I resolved through painfully slow means.The issue was the card being detected as a multimedia sound device (IIRC) via Device Manager but the drivers failing to detect the card. I tried both older and newer versions of the official drivers. Uni's custom drivers also failed to detect the card. Onboard was turned off (this is done via BIOS/UEFI > onboard devices config > realtek/onboard sound disabled) yet the issue remained. Eventually I found the culprit for my problem: Via Device Manager go down to "Sound, video and game controllers" and check if you have AMD's or nVidia's High Definition Audio Device device installed. If it is there proceed to disable it and reboot. Drivers should install fine after that... if you've got the same issue.
Many sources suggested reflashing it's eeprom due to corrupted firmware however the hardware/vendor IDs matched so suggestion is for a completely different problem.
The card is good value for its cost however, 3 stars for having to piss about with Device Manager. My Xonar DGX never required me to disable HD Audio Devices and was perplexed that I had to do it at all.
Many months have past and at last I've discovered the secret. Took it off the computer; removed the software; refitted but ignored the instructions and used no internal connections -so no front panel and merely reloaded the driver, voila a miracle the sound card now will only operate on the speakers leaving the phones to use the motherboard via the front panel, and it still mutes the card.
I have a more expensive (older) Auzeneech X-Fi Prelude, apart from missing some customisation function, the Xonar card is almost as good at a budget price.
It now sounds good, but please remember that you have to set up both control sets to make it work.
By the way, to do anything useful, you have to press the arrow in the bottom right to expose the actual controls - just clicking 2 channel stereo and expecting to have some influence on this is beyond the software writers.
Good sound - lousy controls
I popped this into a machine that I've used to test Windows 10, and the drivers on the supplied disc installed and worked without trouble. The same machine is also used with Linux Mint Cinnamon, and the card was recognised and correct drivers installed automatically for it.
If you currently have on-board sound or you aren't happy with your current sound card you should definitely pick one of these up - you won't regret it.
Update 30-08-2015, I cannot adjust the volume anymore, I was thinking maybe there is something wrong with my headset but I tried it on another computer and it works....
Update 15-09-2015 The volume problem was an issue with a Windows service not being started not the soundcards fault so as it stands now looks OK for the money.
However when i pluged a mic in to the sound card it then ccashed my computer becouse i had to take the sound card out an reset my pc
A WORNING to everybody DO not buy its a pease off crap .Dont wast your munny
Really has no right to be this good for this sort of money. I'm not a full on audiophile but for a normal persons needs this is more than adequate. Had it for months now and no problems at all.
A good, budget friendly sound card with variable SPDIF - if you mainly want a digital sound card it there a benefit in spending more?
Sounds really good & plenty of effects to play around with.
It seems to be possibly of 'Creative soundblaster' origin, as that's what shows up in my system info.
Remember to go into your BIOS & disable onboard sound (if you are using it ) or the exsisting soundcard before installing this card.
Well worth the money
// Had a few issues trying to get it to work at first, but once sorted, works like a charm.





