Auzen X-Fi Bravura 7.1 review - Introduction

Hold on now --  another audio card so soon?  Yes, the audiophiles at Auzentech have released another sound card that will undoubtedly interest many of you. 

There seems to be a market being tapped by the soundcard heavy weights that is usually overlooked for consumer based cards, this market would be the headphone market.  Many of the last audio products from Auzentech and others have had built in headphone amplifiers of one type or another. 

We can use generic headphones on almost any soundcard but to use many of the higher end offerings from companies such as Sennheiser, Grado and Beyer Dynamic, your source needs to have a little more power than just simple line level output.  The Guru3D audio Labs released a sneak peak for this card that introduced this upcoming product to the audio community masses.  On first look a few design aspects have changed.

As such Auzentech has released the brand new X-Fi Bravura 7.1 to be reviewed by the Guru3D audio lab.  Giving us a chance to run it through our testing regimen and have a listen with our reference audio gear.  Without further delay let’s get to the good stuff and see what the courier guy brought over shall we?