Onkyo Releasing a High-End Soundcard

[G3XC]

Onkyo finally deiced to update its WAVIO Sound card line-up and introduced the SE-300PCIE. Announced at 34,800 Yen and set to be available in Japan around the end of this month, the SE-300PCIE is the Onkyo’s High-end and professional oriented latest 7.1 PCI Express Sound card.
Featuring the best from Creative, this new SE-300PCIE comes with 20K2 X-Fi embedded technology with EAX Advanced HD 5.0 on Onkyo’s Original DIDRC circuitry (Dynamic Intermodulation Distortion Reduction Circuitry).
The SE-300PCIE comes with a S/N Ratio (Signal to Nose Ratio) of 120dB and is fully compatible with Windows 7 32 and 64bit.

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[SubZero.it]

Mmm...interesting. Will wait some reviews

[Mech0z]

Dont hope it uses Creative drivers :& hated mine with my Auzentech card

[ajaidev]

Very interested in this, was thinking of getting X-Fi Bravura this can be a very good alternative.......

[Frananta]

The price is kinda high, hopefully it's worth the tag. Right now I'm using SE-200 and by my personal experience its the best card for music (esp Jazz).

[nyeah]

i hope it's a major improvement, i have se200 and i think it is a little cloudy

[Hell Hound]

What other cards have you two used.

[Mechromancer]

¥ 34 800 = 411.0576 U.S. dollars

1. The US Dollar is too weak these days. Quantitative Easing is a horrible idea ain't it?
2. This card would have to make my ears have multiple orgasms each at a price like that. I'd just buy a home theater receiver and run HDMI audio.
3. ....It probably does sound really F'ing good though.

[Hell Hound]

Elite pro was that price @ launch.

[ajaidev]

Ok this is just very expensive out side my budget of $200, looking forward for some reviews...

[Nikolasz]

.....please 32 bit audio output serius dac and serius amps

[[XC] Oj101]

That looks expensive but nice

[crossg]

Onkyo is not well known for customer support so hopefully it will not have any gltches when released. I love my 3007 Receiver ($2500.clams) but their support is not the greatest.

[RejZoR]

Dont hope it uses Creative drivers :& hated mine with my Auzentech card

My Auzentech X-Fi Forte worked just fine as far as drivers are concerned.

[Mungri]

Better than X-Fi HD?

I dont need a better card though, and the creative is fine, though I think I should have gotten an Asus STX instead, but I like having all the X Fi features and settings, and my headphones sound phenomenal.

[Particle]

I'll be curious to see what Xonar ST owners have to say about it.

[Zaskar]

Ahh unlike the SE-200, this one seems to have all soldered on OPAMPS.

But for that price you would think that they didn't use cheep ones, then again you never know. I just hope you can use a Balanced microphone with it like you can with the Forte, was pretty cool being able to change a jumper and use an actual Professional XLR mic (with a 1/8" converter plug) with the card instead of the normal garbage computer mics.

[iddqd]

Dont hope it uses Creative drivers :& hated mine with my Auzentech card

I thought I hated the drivers on mine too (because of the frequent buzzing problems), but apparently it's been caused by a memory leak in ATi drivers all along. Past cats 10.6 or something it doesn't happen any more....

The most annoying thing now is that it [x-fi forte] doesn't automatically turn off rear speakers when front panel headphones are present. I have to manually dial down the volume on them if I want to use cans. Bleh!

[RejZoR]

I was looking at X-Fi HD but they cost like 270 EUR. I paid around 150 EUR for X-Fi Forte. I doubt there is so big difference that it justifies almost twice as high price...

[Zaskar]

Ahh man.

"Only 2ch D / A converter section is made of Burr-Brown DAC "PCM1798" respectively"

For a card that expensive I was really hoping they wouldn't only use good DAC's/OPAMPS on the front channels like most the other "High End" sound card makers do.

[dacosta89]

Dont hope it uses Creative drivers :& hated mine with my Auzentech card

Are you telling that the auzentech cards uses creative drivers? Oh ...

[cyberspyder]

Yeah, no. Hell no, for $411 you can get a pretty damn good external DAC/amp.

[lowfat]

Ahh man.

"Only 2ch D / A converter section is made of Burr-Brown DAC "PCM1798" respectively"

For a card that expensive I was really hoping they wouldn't only use good DAC's/OPAMPS on the front channels like most the other "High End" sound card makers do.

Where did you find out what DAC's they are using? I don't see anything int article.

[Zaskar]

Where did you find out what DAC's they are using? I don't see anything int article.

In a PDF on Onkyo's Japanese site
http://translate.google.com/translat...%26prmd%3Divns

http://translate.google.com/translat...%26prmd%3Divns

[Sparky]

... and I'm still rocking my old Audigy 2 ZS