Asus Xonar D2 inbound!

hellcamino · #1 03-05-2009

After almost 2 years of x-fi hell I finally decided to order up a Xonar, I've seen a lot of crying about it's emulated EAX but ffs any EAX is emulated in vista due to MS being idiots and removing hardware accalerated sound from the damn os!

I'll follow this up later with impressions and differences noted between the 2 cards.

Chuchnit · #2 03-07-2009

Sweet! I can't wait to see what you think. Their cards are expensive, but are supposed to be da bomb.

hellcamino · #3 03-09-2009

So far I think Newegg's shipping sucks...

Kal-EL · #4 03-09-2009

This thing hasn't come in yet? Seems like it was ordered last month.

hellcamino · #5 03-10-2009

Early impressions of the new card are very good, installation was a snap! I uninstalled the old card's software and rebooted and ran Ccleaner several times until it came up clean, shut the machine off and swapped cards. On boot the new card was immediately recognized and vista prompted that it wished to install software for it, I declined vista's help and installed the driver. After reboot the card worked in every way it was intended to and with a little tweaking of the EQ it sounds better than my previous x-fi by a significant margin.

The real test for me will be gaming, I'll update this post after I try it out for a while.

DrNip · #6 03-10-2009

Nice card but damn that's expensive!

hellcamino · #7 04-01-2009

I just ordered Sennheiser's HD 595 headphones to go with the new card, if it doesn't live up to expectations....I will have to step on Supes...olives.

hellcamino · #8 04-03-2009

Ok Supes, your olives are safe as these are truly incredible headphones and the Xonar has enough power to drive them.

Kal-EL · #9 04-03-2009

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Originally Posted by hellcamino

Ok Supes, your olives are safe as these are truly incredible headphones and the Xonar has enough power to drive them.

Thanks bro, glad u retained ur confidence in my opinion thru-out the testing phase :rolleyes:
So does this now mean that I have credibility within the community? Has my reputation increased yet?

hellcamino · #10 04-03-2009

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Originally Posted by Kal-EL

So does this now mean that I have credibility within the community? Has my reputation increased yet?

No and No.

You never commented about the headphone choice or the use of hacked drivers to get the most out of this card either....There is a modded Xonar Essence driver that works quite well for it.

And no one likes Samoans.