| Asus Xonar D2X Sound Card (Black) | 
| Brand: Asus
Category: CE
List Price: $182.99
Buy New: $164.00
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Seller: J&R Music and Computer World
Rating:  13 reviews
Platform: Windows XP
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11 x 7.5 x 2.4
MPN: XONAR D2X
Model: XONAR D2X
UPC: 610839032006
EAN: 4719543032008
ASIN: B0011BC1FO
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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| Features:
| • | Main: 7.1 channel; SPDIF IN; SPDIF Out; Line in (Mic in). Other: CD In; Aux In; MIDI | | • | Sound Noise Ratio (SNR) 118 | | • | GX 2.0 (EAX 5.0) | | • | PowerDVD 7; Ableton Live Lite; Cakewalk PPP; Dolby Demo CD | | • | - Dolby HomeTheater Technologies & DTS Connect |
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Dolby/DTS Sound Technologies. PCI-E Express Slot
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 13
 Consider this before buying... July 9, 2010
Arseny
The card itself is great, the sound quality is superior to my previously owned X-Fi Fatal1ty but consider this:
First, many users have experienced (and, in fact, are experiencing) problems like popping sounds, messed-up channels, troubled microphone in Skype and games, system lock-ups and so on (especially in Win7) - visit Asus's forum to get the idea;
Second, don't expect much in games (if you plan to use it for gaming), Asus's GX is a kind of a joke now and is incapable to emulate EAX in most of the cases (I ended up turning it off forever because it causes crashes way too often plus even when enabled it doesn't add much);
Last, but the most important: it looks like Asus is NOT GOING TO FIX those problems. Despite their promises that the new drivers "are almost ready" and will be released "in next couple of weeks" the support for the whole line of their audio remains awful and there are no drivers for D2X on the horizon.
I must also note that on some systems (mainboards, BIOSes, etc) D2X works perfectly even with the old drivers which makes it a kind of Russian Roulette - you pull the trigger (meaning - you buy it ;) ), you find out whether it'd work for you or not :) Not exactly what I'd expect from Asus though...
I got rid of Creative for the very same reason (lack of support) and now I begin to think that going with Asus wasn't the good idea. Maybe one should try Auzentech?..
 Fantastic sound quality January 16, 2010
H (Charlotte,NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Disclaimer: I am not an expert, but simply want to convey my overall impression of this card. There are plenty of expert reviews on the web, which are worth reading before a potential purchase.
The sound that this card produces blew me away the first time I used it and still does. I have used integrated sound (which is obviously no comparison) and the Creative SB Xtreme Gamer before, which - although a pretty decent sound card in its own right - cannot measure up against the D2X in terms of sound quality. The D2X lets your hear things you did not know existed in a song. If you simply want to enjoy fantastic sound then this is for you. It makes the listening experience (both music and movies) so much more enjoyable. I use the D2X with the Logitech Z5500 PC speakers (highly recommended).
I cannot judge the gaming performance of this card as I do not use it for that purpose. Moreover, I do not utilize many of the features/functionalities of the Xonar D2X Audio Center so that I cannot be a judge of that, either.
The only disappointment so far has been that I could not get the ASIO driver (which comes with the card) to work with REASON 4.1. This does not necessarily imply that the card is at fault. It may very well be some funky interaction/setting within my PC that I have not uncovered yet (Asus P6T Deluxe Mobo, Intel Core i7 920 CPU, Dual-SLI EVGA GTX 260 Core216 Super-Clocked edition, ...). The Creative SB Xtreme Gamer gave me perfect ASIO (with a different PC build).
The price tag is obviously a little bit high relative to other sound cards out there (even when getting a deal), but justified in my view because of the superb sound quality.
So far I have not experienced any problems with this card, which I have owned for about a year.
 GREAT Card BUT! November 18, 2009
M1
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
GREAT Card for Music, Games, Movies.
For me i need a card that i can Rec using the LINE-INPUT BUT!
it was SO LOW !!! nothing i could do to get it UP, ie: Driver updates
even Beta, user data-Base. in the end, company wont FIX this.
Return it/Refund and NOW the best card is Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1
its X-Fi - minus the BLOT!! software, no POP, crackle sounds!! NONE!!
Last: If you dont need to Rec & only care about just playback
ie: Music, Games, Movies & thats IT ??? than this is for You, not for me.
Doesn't work with Vista 64, SP2 October 2, 2009
George Martin (san jose, ca United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had high hopes for this card, but had to return it. I use an intel mother board, with the IDT or sigmatel audio chip set and vista 64. Since the April-09 driver from intel didn't work either, i thought i would spend the money and finally get the most out of my good dolby amp, and JBL 5.1 speakers. So i went through, carefully turned off and uninstalled all the Intel audio stuff, and installed the Xonar 2dx, with the extra power cable. The drivers that came on the CD sort of worked, and looked promising, even though they were dated 2007. the SPDIF worked okay, but didn't sound very robust, instead it was tinny. I went to the ASUS site, and got the latest driver from this year,-March -09 (that was one of the reasons I bought the card, because they had obviously kept up the drivers with some a few months old).
Well, with the March version, the menu's were not readible, and settings therefore could not be accessed. Plus, when going through the ASUS site, it's not possible to know if these updates are cumulative, or whether to load the patch, or whether or not the firmware update is really needed.
In any case, even though i ended up getting SPDIF sound, it wasn't good, wasn't adjustable, none of the controls worked, the NEO 5.1 real time never worked, i couldn't set up or test the 5.1 speakers, etc.
I'm sure that ASUS did a great job on this hardware engineering, but once again, they fall short on the human interface, and the operating system vagaries. I'll be glad when Vista 64 is a distant memory, but in the meantime, i guess i'm stuck with mediocre sound.
 Hardware needs improvement May 2, 2009
G. Booth (Collinsville, IL USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This sound card has a plastic attachment that needs manually pushed back until it clicks. This is a flaw right out of the box. I RMA'd two cards before messing with it myself. A minor flaw, that caused MAJOR problems. This is a rediculous error for a post market product. The card works no better than my hi-def onboard sound. I was very dissapointed with the huge pricetag on a low-quality product. HIGHLY RECOMMEND going with a different product.
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