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Asus Xonar DX

 

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  • User Score (143)
    8.3 8.3 from 143 reviewers
  • Expert Score (2)
    8.0 8.0 from 2 reviewers
  • Value for money (41)
    10 10 from 41 reviewers
  • Features (41)
    10 10 from 41 reviewers
  • Performance (41)
    10 10 from 41 reviewers
  • Overall quality (41)
    10 10 from 41 reviewers
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  • Score Distribution

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  • Expert Reviews

  1. HotHardware

    HotHardware
    21 May 2008

    For around $90, those looking for a better PC audio experience versus integrated solutions should look to the Xonar DX as a significant upgrade.  Considering how closely the Xonar DX rivals the Xonar D2 Ultra, which sells for nearly double the price, the Xonar DX also looks to be a respectable value. The ASUS Xonar DX is a solid product, well suited to gamers and HTPC users alike. Read more

    • Very Good Audio Reproduction, Excellent surround-sound and spatial positioning performance, Good Gaming Performance, EAX 5.0 Support
    • Limited CPU off-load benefits, Skimpy Documentation, Lite Retail Bundle

  2. ExtremeTech

    ExtremeTech
    8.0/10
    10 April 2008

    ASUS chews up proprietary audio calls and spits out aural gold with the Xonar DX, a fantastic gamer's sound card. Read more

    • Fair price for the features; accurate positional sound; excellent performance.
    • No DTS; limited connectors.

  3. CDRinfo

    CDRinfo
    23 June 2008

    Asus' new soundcard will easily cover the needs of gamers for 7.1 high quality audio. Comparing the Asus Xonar DX with the previous D2, the most noticeable difference is its lower retail price. DX's retail package is also less complete than its predecessor's since it includes just the essentials. The new card is also much smaller in volume. Other main differences are found at the chips the new Xonar uses. Read more

  • User Reviews

  1. Nice hardware, terrible drivers

    Amazon
    2.0/10
    Reviewer: Kevin M. Lowe, Amazon
    30 November 2011 See Product at Amazon ($82.24)

    The hardware seems nice, and I didn't have any of the problems others have had with this card installing it (bracket fit fine, power plug was not fragile), but the drivers are terrible. They can't be installed with UAC enabled (a fact that's not documented anywhere), and once I had it up and running, it broke SLI on my system. Read more or see product

  2. Great

    Newegg
    10/10
    Reviewer: Part-time Geek, Newegg
    2 weeks ago

    In Linux I enable the surround feature in Also by going through the terminal, but card was plug and play, Linux came with the drivers all set up in advance. Read more

    • By FAR the very best sound card I have ever used with Linux (Mint 10/Ubuntu). No feedback, distortion, or pops. Small card and is PCIE, so there are many mounting opti...
    • My wife got upset that I paid more than $15 for a sound card. But I worked overtime that week and think I deserve to splurge on some nice tech.

  3. Nice card-But update your BIOS!!!l

    J&R
    8.0/10
    Reviewer: MagicPaul, J&R
    22 September 2010

    It took me several hours to install this but I am not holding it against the card or Asus. I have an EVGA 780i MoBo runing with an iVidia 8800GTX graphics card on 1100 watts PSU on Win7 (32) and at first my board would not even recognize the card. Software update for Win 7 would not install, etc. After trying several times I was almost going to send it back thinking that it was just a bad card and exchange it. Read more

    • Easy To Use, NIce user interface, Quality Output
    • Difficult To Install

  4. "Excellent upgrade! Beyond belief sound, even from MP3"

    CNET
    10/10
    Reviewer: zimmer50, CNET
    11 December 2010

    My Home Theater setup is: Onkyo 705 receiver, Sony BDP-370S blu-ray, Oppo universal CD player, HSU subwoofer, JMlab (now Focal) Chorus 715 front/center, with Wharfdale surrounds. Computer is a standard HP Asus operated with massive hard drives. Television is a 58" Hitachi rear projection 1080i with HDMI in. With this set up I felt performance on music files and hard media was very good, but something was lacking. The Asus DX was the missing element. Read more

    • MP3's play at CD quality or better. FLAC files are superior to any disc format I have used. Set up very straight forward. No problems with physical installation or fea...
    • On initial setup received a hum (feedback?) from front speaker when no devices were active or on--ie. when just using computer. Today, no hum or other feedback under a...

  5. Xonar DX

    PriceGrabber
    10/10
    Reviewer: PriceGrabber
    21 October 2009

    With a reasonably recent alsa, it is completely painless with linux -- microphone, aux input, even 7.1 sound works right out of the box. Low profile so it uses a PCI express slot between my SLI nvidia cards. Great performance for the price. Read more

    • Works with linux. 7.1 sound. Low profile.
    • Specs not as good as the more expensive Xonar D2X

  • WikiFreak Description

Asus Xonar DX

Asus Xonar DX is a PCI Express audio card powered with Dolby Home Theater technologies. It supports DS3D GX 2.0 and built with VocalFX voice processing technologies.

Features

The Xonar DX delivers clean audio quality and produces 116dB and it minimizes the amount of background noise, and it is this distinction that allows the Xonar DX to produce 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion. Besides that, it utilizes CirrusLogics CS4398 audio DAC (120dB SNR & 117dB THD+N) to pro…

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Asus Xonar DX

Asus Xonar DX is a PCI Express audio card powered with Dolby Home Theater technologies. It supports DS3D GX 2.0 and built with VocalFX voice processing technologies.

Features

The Xonar DX delivers clean audio quality and produces 116dB and it minimizes the amount of background noise, and it is this distinction that allows the Xonar DX to produce 1/32 (-105dB) of the total harmonics distortion. Besides that, it utilizes CirrusLogics CS4398 audio DAC (120dB SNR & 117dB THD+N) to provide high quality sound. In addition, it supports DS3D GX 2.0 technology that allows it to achieve multi-channel sounds and also automatically supports EAX and DirectSound HW after installation without the need to search for additional drivers or OpenAL. Moreover, it 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). Furthermore, it also features various sound technologies from Dolby that includes Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker and Dolby Pro Logic® IIx.

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  • Manufacturer's Description

Inheriting from D2 and D2X, Xonar DX 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 incorpor…

Specifications

  • Audio Performance
    Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted): 116dB for front-out, 112dB for other channels dB Input Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted): 112 dB Output THD+N at 1kHz: 0.00056% (-105dB) for Front-out Input THD+N at 1kHz: 0.0004% (-108dB) for Line-in Frequency Response (-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input): Output/Input Full-Scale Voltage 2 Vrms (5.65 Vp-p)

Release Date

  • First seen
    8 May 2008

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