Auzen Forte vs ASUS Xonar Essence STX

[Donnie27]

1) The Forte has 115 dB SNR
2) The Xonar Essence has 117dB SNR

There are other reasons to say the XE sounds better, trying to say your Ears can tell the difference between 115 and 117 dB isn't on of them=P

3) The 124dB SNR is on the coax outs, that have no amp attatched to them, so how the voltage is boosted is beyond me.
4) You're conspiracies make no sense

Sending out data via digital has NOTHING to do with Signal To Noise Ratios. Prior to sending data, a bad sound will be sent the same way as a good one=P Then the final output source will determine the final sound. You ought to be glad the other guy was being nice to you. You sound like one of those folks who went out and paid $75 for a 12ft RCA "Monster" Coaxial cable

Oh, had I known upmixing the sample rate from 44.1khz to 96khz sounded better, I would have done it sooner.

I can't tell when music is bitmatched and neither can you. It's for audio mixing.

First of all, bit- matched is for recording! On playback, it will not have an affect unless like me, you use DVD-Audio and etc..... To do real tests for audio playback, they mean use the best SETTING meant for truer music playback. Not setting colored or tuned for Games or Movies! Surely you get that, right? I don't have a lot of respect for so called Audiophiles

You make a Recording Analog at 2ch 24bit/96KHz of something like an Analog source. Then you use a Lossless compression app like Flac or etc.. to compress it into something manageable. Try it and see? Also, can your sound card process data fast enough to "Time Shift"? X-Fi can do it flawlessly! By time shift I mean speed up or slow down the music without affecting the tone quality!