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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."

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  1. Kudos to Asus by KnowledgeEngine · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know about everyone else here but I for one am happy to see someone bringing the competition to Creative's front door. I can remember resentments towards them from my ms-dos childhood. As a matter of fact I don't think I have any good memories of Creative driver experiences... Hmmmm. I wonder if the emulated EAX drivers can replicate the awesome sound effects like in this video though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

  2. Re:That'll teach Creative to be stingy about drive by hercubus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Am I paranoid to think that these hardware companies who are stingy with their drivers are mostly on Microsoft's tit, being subsidized to keep drivers out of the hands of free software developers?

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  3. Re:Does it work with Linux? by dmsuperman · · Score: 1, Troll

    Someone mod parent funny.

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