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Topic: Asus Xonar Essence STX or M-Audio Audiophile 192 or ... ? (Read 3495 times) previous topic - next topic
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Asus Xonar Essence STX or M-Audio Audiophile 192 or ... ?

Hello,

I would like to have opinion about a choice between these two card. Or other suggestions.

There first things I'm paying attention to are:
1) The quality of recording
2) Drivers stability, working with Windows 7 64, without any 'surprise problems' (I'm currently having terrible experiences with Creative X-FI Fatal1ty Champions or something like that)
3) Balanced quality playback
4) The connections : if possible RCA, or something for which I'll easily find and adapter.


Thank you.

Asus Xonar Essence STX or M-Audio Audiophile 192 or ... ?

Reply #1 –
E-mu 0404 PCI/e, add a Fiio E5 if you are concerned with headphone output quality.
 

Asus Xonar Essence STX or M-Audio Audiophile 192 or ... ?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Xrcr9709 on
Hello,

I would like to have opinion about a choice between these two card. Or other suggestions.

There first things I'm paying attention to are:
1) The quality of recording


For the purposes of discussion, lets say that they are identical in this regard.

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2) Drivers stability, working with Windows 7 64, without any 'surprise problems' (I'm currently having terrible experiences with Creative X-FI Fatal1ty Champions or something like that)


Advantage: M-Audio. They have been sucessfully making and selling pro audio computer interfaces for over a decade. The driver for the AP192 is based on a technology that is  so solid that the same driver supports maybe a dozen different of their most popular and respected devices.

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3) Balanced quality playback


For the purposes of discussion, lets say that they are identical in this regard.

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4) The connections : if possible RCA, or something for which I'll easily find and adapter.


The AP 24192 uses 1/4" TRS connectors for which RCA adaptors are readily available. You just use TS<-> RCA adaptors which are cheap and readily available.