ASUS Xonar DG PCI 5.1 Audio Card

I bought this card because the sound on my motherboard packed up. I picked this one as all my other gear is Asus. It was easy to install on a spare pci slot and I connected the front panel HD audio panel. The drivers were easy to install on my dual booted XP and Windows 7 64. Just install the card and boot up. Just make sure you disable the on board sound in bios and uninstall all the sound drivers before installation. I was amazed at the power of output and the quality. Through headphones you can simulate 7.1 surround sound and Dolby surround. There are many adjustments you can make in the console. The sound quality is far superior to any on board sound. I can now confirm that this card works fine with Windows 10.

I bought this - being in need of a sound card and this has some ecxellent reviews - all five stars as I can see. But it does have a small problem, now I would expect, old fool that I am, that the default output from a sound card would be switched, depending upon the connected outputs, but no, its not. Now when you read all these 5 star reviews please note they are invariably from those who listen via headphones, and that dear readers is the default setting. If you want your speakers to give you the benefit of your new toy you are going to manually switch from headphone to speaker system every time you switch on or even wake up. Its not the greatest chore in the world you merely merely end up with the Xonar short cut pinned. I did contact Asus and had a bit of a gripe, and was told to get used to it cos thats the way it worked. Now then having got that off my chest let me say that this is a lovely piece of kit the sound is gorgeous both with speakers and headphones, I found it easy to load and set up, apart of course, from its default setting. The job it does is worthy of the 5 stars thrown at it willy nilly, but I don't like the way it does it; so no -I'm not giving it 5 stars Many months have past and at last I've discovered the secret. Took it off the computer; removed the software; refitted but ignored the instructions and used no internal connections -so no front panel and merely reloaded the driver, voila a miracle the sound card now will only operate on the speakers leaving the phones to use the motherboard via the front panel, and it still mutes the card.

I initiated purchase of a PCI sound card for one reason only: Like most onboard sound cards, the one on my ASUS P8Z77V-LX motherboard generates an annoying "POP" on PC boot that is completely out of character with an otherwise very refined system. The ASUS DG card is inexpensive and supports a front panel connection, so I ordered one. The first one was faulty (not detected in any PCI slot despite care taken to observe anti-static precautions) and replaced without quibble by Amazon. The second one installed flawlessly, first time, having of course first disabled the onboard soundcard via the BIOS utility. My pleasant surprise has been the staggering difference in sound quality both compared to the onboard sound card ("wooden") and also a Creative Soundblaster Audigy card (nothing special) that I used until recently in another PC, in the same location, with the same Creative 5.1 amplifier and speakers. Sure, it is not a patch on high end HiFI kit, but music is surprisingly, well, musical - and enjoyable for it. 5.1 imaging from true surround sound source is also more precise than with the other cards. Very happy.

Worked fine immediately after installation (with minor complaint: every time we restarted our computer we had to reconfigure device to output sound to the connected 2-channel speakers, rather than the default: 2-channel front-panel headphones, which were NOT connected). Bizarre, that for 21 GBP, one cannot have reliable auto-detection of connected audio devices!) Sound quality was OK while it worked: residual buzz while switched on without sound output was very minimal and unintrusive compared with the basic motherboard sound output we used previously. 1 week after installation, we noticed that the sound was very tinny: listening to the speakers, only one side (right) was working. 1/2 of the green rear 2-channel output 3.5mm audio jack was broken (electrically, but not physically): I tested with various devices (speakers, earphones) on various output jacks, and was able to eliminate the possibility of speaker/wire damage: the issue was clearly a fault with the sound card. Returning, will go back to using motherboard's built-in sound output, or will order something else (perhaps an equivalent Sound Blaster).

The card is a half-height and it comes with a half-height adapter. Installation is straight forward. The Xonar software has good configuration function for adjusting the sound quality and effect; there are a lot of well configured presets ready to use. Just two observations; 1) if you select surround sound for you headphones, you may want to adjust the “distance” of the surround sound effect otherwise it can sound like you are sitting in a tin bath. 2) If you are going to use the Analogue Mic function onboard, it is not powered, keep the mic cable short otherwise it can be too quiet. I have a more expensive (older) Auzeneech X-Fi Prelude, apart from missing some customisation function, the Xonar card is almost as good at a budget price.

I bought this mainly because i wanted to use stereo mix for recording audio from the pc. I did have on-board sound but that got damaged by static when i plugged in my amplifier. Amplifier is now bonded to the pc. I had other cards but had problems wih them. An old creative audigy ls that didnt have stereo mix on win 7 64 bit & an Aureon Terratec 7.1 space. The latter card is a a great card but the stereo mix level on mine was almost non existent.. I was pleasantly surprised by the audio quality & signal to noise ratio. Glad i bought this.

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Es una buena tarjeta de audio ,la uso con unas razer tiamat 7.1 v2 ,y la verdad estoy satisfecho con la calidad del audio . Se siente muy limpio el sonido ,muy claro. Aparte el software te da un montón de opciones para que pongas el sonido como mas te guste ,y es fácil de entender la interfaz. Creo que es una buena compra.

O som de certa forma é bom. Porém por algum motivo que ainda não consegui resolver, quando estou jogando, ou escutando música e tentando desenhar ao mesmo tempo, o som começa a cortar. Se algum dia eu conseguir resolver o problema, posso rever minha avaliação. Eu estava entre essa e uma Audigy Sound Blaster. Optei por essa, por conta da minha placa mãe também ser ASUS. Supostamente não era para dar problemas. Mas enfim né?

This card works exceptionally well, especially compared to all the other sound cards reviewed by people. In my case specifically, the card itself installed without any issues upon boot AND the drivers that I downloaded didn't even require that the sound cards 'control panel' be installed to use it correctly, it is optional. Of course you can always let windows handle the necessary driver installation straight from the internet or from the system's library itself. Though you should always check to see if the one you downloaded is more up to date than windows. Fortunately mine were already up to date with just windows alone. Performance? Probably some of the best from any sound cards I have used, including the ones integrated into the motherboard. The sound comes off SUPER clear and with the right amount of amplification needed for my headphones. So there was no issues with either having a flat audio/sound or noise encumbering my experience. The microphone port is also super clear in audio feedback with very little noise in the background. So I can definitely say i've gotten my money's 'worth'.

Muy buen volumen, calidad y me encanta la aplicacion de xonar para controlar todo