Brand | ASUS |
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Item model number | Xonar DSX |
Hardware Platform | PC |
Item Weight | 1.03 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 10 x 7 x 3 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 10 x 7 x 3 inches |
Number of Processors | 1 |
Manufacturer | ASUS |
ASIN | B007TMZ1MY |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | April 12, 2012 |
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ASUS Xonar DSX PCIe 7.1 GX2.5 Audio Engine 192K/24bit Playback Support Sound Cards
Brand | ASUS |
Hardware Interface | PCI |
Audio Output Mode | Surround |
Platform | Not Machine Specific |
Hardware Platform | PC |
About this item
- 192k/24bit True PC Hi-Fi Enjoyment. Xonar DSX's 192kHz/24bit playback support let you enjoy all music files converted at highest quality without any sample rate downgrade.
- Bring the Hi-Fi Theater to your desktop. Consisting of DTS Neo: PC and DTS Interactive technologies, DTS Connect brings the world's most welcomed Hi-Fi surround sound to your PC and turns it into a powerful multi-media center and game console.
- Immersive Gaming Audio. Feel enemies crawling behind you and hear voices echo in dungeons with Xonar's immersive GX2.5 audio engine. Enable latest EAX gaming audio, and restores surround gaming in Windows Vista without additional software.
- Auto-detect front-panel, Intel HDA compatible front-panel header automatically switches output from back-panel to front once plugged in.
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Easy to install | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
Sound quality | 3.2 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
For gaming | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
Volume control | — | 5.0 | 4.2 | 3.9 | — | 4.2 |
Tech Support | — | 3.5 | — | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
Sold By | — | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
hardware interface | pci | pci express x1 | pci express x1 | usb | pci express x1, pci x 1, pci x 1, pci x 1 | pci express x4 |
audio output mode | Surround | Surround | Surround | Surround | 7.1 | Surround, Dolby Digital |
surround channels | 7 1 | 5.1 | 7.1 | 5.1 | 7.1 | 7.1 |
hardware platform | PC | PC | Speakers, Headphones | Headphones | Speakers, Headphones, PC | Headphones |
192 KHz | 192 KHz | 192 KHz | 192 KHz | 192 KHz | 384 KHz | |
signal-to-noise ratio | 120 decibels | — | 116 decibels | 116 decibels | 106 decibels | 127 decibels |
Product Description
ASUS Xonar team launched Xonar DSX, the highly-anticipated PCI-E version of the award-winning Xonar DS 7.1 sound card, featuring GX2.5 for immersive 3D audio effects, DTS: Connect that brings theatre to your desktop and swappable op-amp sockets for greater audio personalization . The PCI-E edition supports easier system upgrades and allows audio lovers to enjoy the Xonar experience with great ease.
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Best Sellers Rank | #71 in Computer Internal Sound Cards |
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Customers like the sound quality, performance, ease of installation, and value of the sound card. For example, they mention that it improves their listening experience, works well in Linux, and has a simple management interface. That said, some are disappointed with the drivers and have mixed opinions on quality.
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Customers generally like the sound quality of the sound card. They mention that the sound is very good, has features that will improve their listening experience, and that it's easy to tweak the sound the way they want it. Customers also say that the card has all the high fidelity that they could ask for.
"...will provide you with all the features you need and will improve your listening experience...." Read more
"...It sounds good to me, but this probably has more to do with my Sony sound bar than this card vs another...." Read more
"...was an upgrade from an old card (2002), I have to say that sound quality is pretty good compared to both the old card and onboard sound, after all..." Read more
"...The highs from cymbals and bells are clear and sweet. The bass is full and crisp, not muddied...." Read more
Customers like the performance of the sound card. They mention that it works well in Linux, has no problems with the driver, and performs much better than the original. It also excels in games like Battlefield 3 and makes good music and movies. Some mention that the 192/24 playback works flawlessly, and that it is much better then the on-board sound card that came with their computer.
"...After a restart I was up and running.192/24 playback works flawlessly. The card uses a mini-Toslink connection for optical...." Read more
"...It seems to work fine and it sounds good...." Read more
"...This xonar dsx has no problem with driver and is sound good and even better if changingop amp to LM 4562NA.pros :-..." Read more
"...Pros:- Outstanding sound quality, drives Sennheiser HD595s very well...." Read more
Customers like the ease of installation of the sound card. They mention that it is easy to install and use, has a very nice utility for set up, and does the job well with little setup hassle. Some customers also say that the card has simplier management interface.
"...The card came well packed and was easily installed. I downloaded the latest drivers from Asus which installed with no issues in Windows 7...." Read more
"...It does the job well with little setup hassle and (in my experience) no stability issues...." Read more
"...The physical installation was a snap and I installed the downloaded drivers taking all the defaults...." Read more
"...My internal RealTek's drivers wouldn't setup my speakers correctly. Finally the XONAR just works!..." Read more
Customers like the value of the sound card. For example, they say it's well worth the price, delivers great sound at a great price, and is a decent card.
"...the onboard sound in the computer but I feel like this card was well worth the price. If you are picky about your sound I would recommend it...." Read more
"...Overall it's a good card for the price...." Read more
"...It provides excellent sound and 5.1 or 7.1 sound for a good price...." Read more
"...Well worth the sixty dollars. Enough to keep my picky ears happy. Docking a star for not having the driver for windows 8 - 10 on the disc." Read more
Customers are mixed about the quality of the sound card. Some mention it's a great Linux card, while others say that the software is clunky and will not install properly. Windows 7 didn't recognize it immediately, and the bundled software is not very full-featured.
"...It has a much simpler software suite than the Creative card and a simpler management interface...." Read more
"Card Installed nicely, software loaded... but was tricky to get my arms around. With W7 had to go looking for the desktop icon to run it...." Read more
"...clearer, one of the things I was hoping for, but the overall quality was much much worse compared to just the default settings for some cheap low..." Read more
"...But, seeing as this card provides as good of a quality than the more expensive Creative card I decided to go with this card...." Read more
Customers have negative opinions about the sound card's drivers. They say the factory drivers are not good, the OEM drivers are unusable, and the Windows 8.1 drivers are unstable. Customers also complain that the driver disc does not supply Windows 8-10 support.
"...But once you disconnect them, the drivers won't set the output back to the speakers so you have to it manually..." Read more
"...It all fell apart almost immediately. The drivers were just absolutely horrible...." Read more
"...Tried a Creative Labs and the driver support is terrible. They just got windows 8 support recently with windows 10 users in the cold...." Read more
"...The OEM drivers are not useable for me, so I downloaded the UNI xonar drivers...." Read more
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I came into the market wanting a card that supported 192/24 playback and I needed an optical Toslink output to connect to my DAC. This card satisfied my requirements.
The card came well packed and was easily installed. I downloaded the latest drivers from Asus which installed with no issues in Windows 7. After a restart I was up and running.
192/24 playback works flawlessly. The card uses a mini-Toslink connection for optical. Asus provides an adapter in case you have a standard Toslink cable.
There is no question the audio quality is improved with the optical connection. Everything (bass & treble) seems tighter and I can pick up subtle details in my music that were somehow lost over USB. The pops and cracks are gone. WASAPI also works flawlessly.
If you are running a similar set up to mine this card will provide you with all the features you need and will improve your listening experience. Don't blow $200 on a Xonar Essence unless you need the DAC and amp on the card. Don't get me wrong; the Asus Xonar Essence line is excellent, but for me and I dare say anyone with an external DAC it would have been overkill.
I was worried that adding a sound card to my system because they always seem to have various incompatibility or stability issues. Despite this, I'm happy to say that I haven't had any issues since installing the card. I did initially install the card in a full size (16x) PCIe slot, and I had to move it to a 1x slot before the PC would recognize it. I'm not sure why this would matter...but look out for it if you are having issues with your install. As far as the output, I'm no audiophile so I probably can't comment on any sound quality increase or decrease seen when using this card over the motherboard's integrated sound. It sounds good to me, but this probably has more to do with my Sony sound bar than this card vs another.
The one downside (which has been brought up in other reviews) is that the software for this card (and I assume other ASUS sound cards from this line) looks terrible and is way too confusing. The interface looks similar to an application I would have installed on windows 95, and I'm still not sure if I have the correct settings selected for my setup. I got it to the point where my sound system is showing the dolby symbol or DTS symbol when I watch TV or movies...so I assume I am outputting a surround signal, which is what I want.
Having said all this, the bottom line is that there aren't actually that many options for low cost and low profile audio card. For most of us, on-board audio is probably good enough, but if you are reading this review then obviously you probably have some random reason (like me) for needing an add-in card. If that is the case, then don't hesitate to pick up this card. It does the job well with little setup hassle and (in my experience) no stability issues.
Update: I'm adding this update to my review because although initially I thought I had avoided any of the stability issues sound cards are known for, I was wrong. A short while after installing this card I started getting BSODs about twice a week. For a while I ignored it as I was being lazy and it wasn't happening enough for my to want to troubleshoot it. Eventually however, it was happening enough that I looked into what was going on. Long story short, it was the sound card drivers. Luckily, there are enough people out there with similar issues that someone has developed open source drivers to replace the faulty ones provided by ASUS. If you search the web for "ASUS XONAR Unified drivers" you will find them. Once I got rid of ASUS's drivers and installed these my BSODs were gone. Hopefully this information can save someone the headache and troubleshooting I went through before finding a fix.
Thing is... I'm quite disappointed about the drivers, they could be a lot better. First of all they seem as old as the drivers of my last card.
You have to installed the drivers from the disc, because the ones on the page won't work, and don't forget to run them with administrator privileges or the installation will hang after about an hour of waiting.
Once the drivers are installed, you will get options to set how many channels your input has and how many speakers you have (this is not detected automatically like with other cards), for instance, if you have 5.1 speaker set up, then you'll have to set an output of 6 channels and an input of 2 channels to listen music and change the input to 6 channels if you're gonna watch a movie or play a game with 5.1 support, then change it back to listen music again... This can be kind of annoying after a while :/ specially if you watch a lot of movies with 5.1.
If you connect some headphones in the front audio jacks they'll be detected automatically and the drivers will set the output to headphones (don't forget to set your input as two channels for music). But once you disconnect them, the drivers won't set the output back to the speakers so you have to it manually (I thought the card died because no sound was coming out of the speakers but it was just this setting).
Hope this helps!
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公式のは古すぎてね・・・
スピーカー等はTSS-10/EarPods with 3.5 mm/MDR-XB90EX/他にもあるけど主に使ったのだけ記述
音は使用ソフトウェアに限らずしっかり出してくれるし、イコライザーがあるから自分が出したい音にもカスタマイズ出来る
まあ音質はともかく音を弄れる機能が多いのがサウンドカードのいいところですよね(自分は使ってませんが・・・)
不満点ですが5.1chをDTSで主力できなくなった事です、非公式ドライバを作っているサイト(↑のやつ)でも確認されています
それとGX機能って実際の効果はなくてバグの原因になってるので使ってない
後は満足!最高!
The only problem came was that it was not recognized on my Asrock Z87 fata1ty killer MB, as I put it in the PCI-E x1 slot. However, I solved the issue by putting it into a PCI-E x16 slot (which actually has only x4 speed), it worked. Not a big deal but just let you know. Still, it is weird that PCI-E x1 does not work for it.