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Computex 2015: Powercolor Devil HDX PCI Express Sound Card
The Devil HDX PCI Express sound card will feature crystal clear Hi-Fi audio. Using supreme quality components, excellent layout design to reach 124dB SNR, and offering crystal clear sound quality for audiophiles, gamers and enthusiasts alike will be blown away by its quality.
The Devil HDX has built-in headphone amplifiers with a 6.3mm phone jack with amplifier drives up to 600 impedance on headphones that provide thundering high fidelity sound strike to your headset. The swappable op-amp sockets allow users to create exclusive timbre, allowing different sound quality and overall user tunable custom experience for all. And with the multi-channel daughter board, users can enjoy the 7.1 channel surround sound.
The card is powered by a C-Media CMI8888 native-PCIe processor connected to a Wolfson WM8741 primary DAC with 124 dBA SNR. Amplifying this, is a TI LM4562 OPAMP. Nichicon Muse electrolytic with metalized polypropylene caps against signal loss.
Anyway, have a peek, looks like dedicated audio cards are making a return as ASUS has some new kit soon as well.
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#5087585 Posted on: 06/02/2015 08:26 PM
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
No u don't need any external stuff, what u need is a proper shielding inside of a PC, so the sound card needs its own shielding and if u put a big graphic card close to your sound card, make sure that graphic card has its own metallic backplate if it is below the sound card.
and no, it is not overpriced crap, not only sound cards have more features like dolby, xear 3d, equalizer, surround enhancement features but also produce a more powerful output at still very high quality to drive your high powered headphones
About Powercolor Devil HDX, spec wise looks promising but everything depends on the end price and features
Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
No u don't need any external stuff, what u need is a proper shielding inside of a PC, so the sound card needs its own shielding and if u put a big graphic card close to your sound card, make sure that graphic card has its own metallic backplate if it is below the sound card.
and no, it is not overpriced crap, not only sound cards have more features like dolby, xear 3d, equalizer, surround enhancement features but also produce a more powerful output at still very high quality to drive your high powered headphones
About Powercolor Devil HDX, spec wise looks promising but everything depends on the end price and features
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#5087668 Posted on: 06/02/2015 10:03 PM
For Creative that's a major understatement. Their drivers to this day for their flagship devices like the ZxR have some major glitches which their drivers from at least 2005 had. Literally 10+ years of the same problems. When I say major, I'm talking on the level of the hardware outright not working or being detected.
Could always use another player in the soundcard market. Both Asus and Creative have horrible driver support for their products.
For Creative that's a major understatement. Their drivers to this day for their flagship devices like the ZxR have some major glitches which their drivers from at least 2005 had. Literally 10+ years of the same problems. When I say major, I'm talking on the level of the hardware outright not working or being detected.
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#5089287 Posted on: 06/04/2015 08:21 PM
Not much better with asus, they've released a non whql driver for the phoebus recently (and by recently i mean nearly 4 months ago), with the same drm bug it had since the beginning.
For Creative that's a major understatement. Their drivers to this day for their flagship devices like the ZxR have some major glitches which their drivers from at least 2005 had. Literally 10+ years of the same problems. When I say major, I'm talking on the level of the hardware outright not working or being detected.
Not much better with asus, they've released a non whql driver for the phoebus recently (and by recently i mean nearly 4 months ago), with the same drm bug it had since the beginning.
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#5089297 Posted on: 06/04/2015 08:33 PM
I just use my Phoebus for toslink optical connection no for my Bifrost Uber dac, won`t go back to a sound card again.
I just use my Phoebus for toslink optical connection no for my Bifrost Uber dac, won`t go back to a sound card again.
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Placing any audio processing piece of hardware inside a PC case is the worst possible scenario.
If you truly care about audio you should just get an external DAC and possibly an AMP unless you use some crappy gaming headphones/speakers.
Any creative/asus/etc audio hw is an overpriced piece of crap.
This.
I have been happily bitstreaming for past ~7 years. All I need is that a motherboard has digital or optical out. Never looked back.