Auzen Forte vs ASUS Xonar Essence STX

[Donnie27]

It's funny how when I try to be objective about the comparison, you go on the subjective-defence to justify your purchase.

I never saw you post anything objective at all.

When I said coax, I meant composite, and yes they are infact analogue, and they do in fact have a 124dB SNR. I didn't mention digital out at all, you just read what you wanted, and made a stupid reply. No, I don't buy overpriced digital carrying cables, but would try to stick to medium-high quality, shielded analogue cables.

You mentioned COAX, to use it, you have to go digital. If you made a Mistake, that's fine just admit it and move on. I called an Opamp a DAC, Rob corrected me and corrected the mistake, I thanked him and moved on. You made the mistake so plase don't dig a deeper hole? NOTE, COAX or RCA used for digital out doesn't need to be thick, made by Monster and or shielded. It is pretty hard to mess up a digital signal BTW! I use think shielded RCA cables for my Analog out. I use them again to connect my New School Harmon Kardon Pre-Amp to the Old School Harman Kardon very Powerful Twin Power AMP on my 730!

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=112218

The H-K receivers, including the 730, all sound excellent. It has separate power supplies for each channel.....very low IM distortion...a minimum of wiring....all means it will sound better than a comparable power and priced receiver.....tighter bass, more defined mids and highs...the ability to image and have depth. Definitely worth fixing!

It can be used for recording! It's also for playback.

Right! Please note, X-Fi's SRC is NOT the same as the Audigy's. You don't need bit-match unless you're using something with a HIGH BIT-RATE, like SACD, DVD Audio, or original master recording that were made and not compressed yet.

Bit-Matching guarantees the information from the source to output are exactly the same. I can use bit matching on MP3, FLAC, WAV anything I feel like. It's pretty impressive you bought audio DVD's though .

Bit matching anything except high Bit-Rate material is a worth it! Yes 24bit 96KHz Smoke on the Water, Hotel California, Listen to the Music, Tubular Bells has to be heard to be believed. If you're using CD and MP3's, you're the missing out.

I'm not sure what you're reffering to by they and tests, but your grammar confuses me. Bit-matching does not reduce colouring comapred to non-bit matched, it allows for 0 mistakes in the bitstream output. You can't argue that any errors would perceivably colours the sound.

You grammar and spelling confuses me but I can decipher it OK I know what you're referring to, it's just wrong most of the time! You don't use bit matching for something error correction designed for.

EDIT: Wow, Mr. Beyer 770 is talking about colour. LOL.

One of 4 sets I use! But most folks here know I love speakers and have a room dedicated for it and my computer.

[B]I don't have a ton of respect for people who act like they know what they're talking about on these matters :/

Please have just a little respect for yourself then!

[B]I think you would be very hard-pressed to discern 320k-MP3 and CD/FLAC., let alone CD and DVD-A. It's pretty impossible I think. Download an ABX tester and try it using a FLAC file, and the same file converted to 320k MP3.

Pretty much shows just how much you don't know. I don't think I know everything and love learning what and when I can. Show me a know it all and I'll show you a fool!

[B]I don't have that feature on my sound card, and I'm not sure why you're boasting the processing power of a sound card, or do I recognize what such a feature would be used for. An application could easily do that on a CPU.

Time shift is how you to speed up or slow down a Track/s without changing the tone! Not boasting at all, just pointing out something useful instead of something out of the human hearing range, like 124db LOL!

Then one thing you have right in your posted with any amount of truth. I in fact installed the Mobo's audio on my P45. Almost all of the features worked to my surprise. Anyone with an X-Fi of any kind can test this for themselves.
Just install both in either order.

Oh and Bradan, we do have PM if you misunderstood something?