yep I saw the Asus Xonar Essence and it looks really good, but unfortunately
they don't make an external unit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Zaske" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 14:21
Subject: Re: [H] Getting a second audiophile sound card - external?
Ran across this and thought you might be interested.
http://www.futurelooks.com/asus-xonar-essence-stx-headphone-amp-sound-card-reviewed/
Veech wrote:
I have a system that CW built a couple years ago (which still rocks btw,
thanks Chris!) based around the then new nVidia 680i SLI board. At the
time I was more interested in gaming than audio, so I went with the
Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty board with the front panel break-out box.
Now, I'm going to invest in a pair of high-end speakers and a couple of
mono-block amps, and am discovering that Creative is one of the worst
cards for audiophile listening. I am looking at
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire610.html as an option, an
external sound card (and more).
Question is, do you folks think I will have any issues with conflicts
with the Creative card if I get a secondary card, wither external or
internal? It works fine for me for gaming and I don't have any great need
to dump it, but I do have a great need to find a high-quality audio sound
card.
