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Asus Xonar D1

First seen: 6 september 2008

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Great Deal: $81.79

  • User Score (20)
    9.6 9.6 from 20 reviewers
  • Ease of use (2)
    10 10 from 2 reviewers
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Pros & Cons

  • low profile compatible, excellent bass redirection controls, optical digital output, works in vista
  • limited inputs see review

Inheriting from DX and D2X, Xonar D1 also provides complete valuable Dolby Home Theater technologies for games and all home entertainments: Delivers a realistic and spacious 2-to-5.1 surround or 3D positional soundfield over any set of stereo headphones Simulates a highly realistic 5.1-speaker surround sound listening environment from as few as two speakers DS3D GX 2.0 not only revives EAX and DirectSound effects in games on Windows Vista as GX 1.0, but also incorpora…

Specifications

  • Audio Performance
    Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted):
  • Audio Performance
    116dB for front-out, 112dB for other channels dB
  • Audio Performance
    Input Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted):
  • Audio Performance
    112 dB
  • Audio Performance
    Output THD+N at 1kHz:
  • Audio Performance
    0.00056% (-105dB) for Front-out
  • Audio Performance
    Input THD+N at 1kHz:
  • Audio Performance
    0.0004% (-108dB) for Line-in
  • Audio Performance
    Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input):
  • Audio Performance
    Output/Input Full-Scale Voltage

Release Date

  • First seen
    6 September 2008

Asus Xonar D1

Asus Xonar D1 is a PCI soundcard. It enables user to enjoy Dolby Home Theater audio quality production from the PC. Among its main features include

Features

The Xonar D1 provides clean audio quality as it adopts CirrusLogics CS4398 audio DAC (120dB SNR & 117dB THD+N), that only produce 1/35 (2.8%) of the noise levels when compared to motherboard audio. Additionally, the Xonar D1 also produces as little as 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion present in motherboard audi…

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Asus Xonar D1

Asus Xonar D1 is a PCI soundcard. It enables user to enjoy Dolby Home Theater audio quality production from the PC. Among its main features include

Features

The Xonar D1 provides clean audio quality as it adopts CirrusLogics CS4398 audio DAC (120dB SNR & 117dB THD+N), that only produce 1/35 (2.8%) of the noise levels when compared to motherboard audio. Additionally, the Xonar D1 also produces as little as 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion present in motherboard audio (-75dB). Besides that, it supports GX 2.0 for gaming on Windows Vista and XP that enables EAX and DirectSound HW. Moreover, with S/PDIF header, it can easily match audio and video through a VGA card’s HDMI output which results clean and simple solution for home theater PC builders. Furthermore, it also features VocalFX which is a voice processing technology that puts user’s voice into the realistic game landscape (VoiceEX) or emulates background scenes in online chat (ChatEX). It is also capable to change voice pitch to disguise identities (Magic Voice). For high quality sound reproduction, it features Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker and Dolby Pro Logic® IIx. In term of its specification, it is built with ASUS AV100 High-Definition Sound Processor (Max. 192KHz/24bit).

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  1. Asus Xonar D1

    Reviewer: Overclockers Club
    9 November 2008

    To be quite honest, when I received this low-profile soundcard, I wasn't expecting much from it, but the claims of being so much better than onboard audio made me curious. Read more

  1. Asus Xonar D1 - move over creative, your time is up.

    Reviewer: Dooyoo
    5 October 2009
    Overall 10
    10
    Features 10
    10
     

    The souncard market has never really been swamped with options. For those of us who don't use onboard sound and demand a seperate sound card for our sorround sound/gaming/music needs theres never been much choice. Most people go with Creative as they are well known and apparently respectable. I did just that a few years ago, it was a mistake. Their driver and customer support, especially for Windows Vista users is seriously lacking. I was finding my games locking up, my... Read more

  2. Great sounding card

    Reviewer: Adam Webb "adam", Amazon
    4 weeks ago
    Overall 10
    10
     

    For the longest time I had been a Creative user, up until my Audigy 2, which I compared to my onboard sound and was actually impressed with the onboard, not to mention the terrible support for Creative in the last few years, but I'll skip that. The Xonar D1 is an extremely well performing card. This is especially true for music. I have a very broad taste in music, from classical, jazz, rockabilly, ska, hip-hop, indie, whatever (no country) and everything sounds amazing.... Read more

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