Asus Xonar Essence ST PCI HI-FI Soundcard 124db SNR Provides The Best PC Sound Clarity Available

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Mfr#: XONAR ESSENCES ST

£129.99

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ASUS' Xonar Essence ST audio card with world's first precision audio clock tuning offers a revolutionary listening experience.

In its search for the purest essence of sound, ASUS have broken the boundaries with the soundcard on the market, the Xonar Essence ST. This PCI card is the world's first audio card to incorporate precision clock tuning to minimize audio jitter, bringing the user a clearer, crisper listening experience.

The Xonar Essence ST is capable of achieving an industry-leading 124dB SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) in signal clarity and offers a built-in headphone amplifier to obtain the best performance out of any available pair of headphones. Thanks to ASUS' exclusive Hyper-grounding and EMI Shield design, even the most demanding audiophile will be satisfied with the unprecedented sound quality.

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Excellent sound card

Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 06/04/2012

Easy to install, but you have to ensure that you have a spare internal power connect - the ones that go into the back of CD drive - otherwise it won't function.
Sound quality - either directly from the analogue output or indirectly through the digital spdif out to an external DAC - is top notch. The internal DAC of this card is excellent and equivalent to that produced by, for example, a Cambridge DacMagic plus.
As ever, ASIO driver's are a bit fidly - download the latest version from ASUS website (ignore the included CD Rom), run this after installing the card (making sure to connect the internal power!) and...in the tray icon that the software creates, right click...choose Asus Xonar ASIO and make sure the bit dpeth is set at 24. Mine was set at 16 bits and resulted, obviously, in poorer sound quality from my 24 bit recordings.
Other than this, a SUPERB card - better than messing about with USB DACs or USB to spdif convertors.

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Summary

Product Description: ASUS Xonar Essence ST - sound card

Device Type: Sound card

Enclosure Type: Internal

Interface Type: PCI

Signal Processor: ASUS AV100

Sound Output Mode: Stereo

DAC Resolution: 24-bit

Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz (min) - 192 kHz (max)

Signal-To-Noise Ratio: 124 dB

System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Microsoft Windows Vista

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General

Device Type: Sound card

Form Factor: Internal

Interface Type: PCI

Processor / Memory

Signal Processor: ASUS AV100

Audio Output

Sound Output Mode: Stereo

DAC Resolution: 24-bit

Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz (min) - 192 kHz (max)

Signal-To-Noise Ratio: 124 dB

Frequency Response: 10 - 90000 Hz

Compliant Standards: DirectSound, Dolby Digital 5.1, A3D 1.0, OpenAL, Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Virtual Speaker, Dolby Headphone, DirectSound3D GX 2.5, Dolby Pro Logic II

Audio Modes: Playback : 24-bit 192 kHz - 124 dB , Record : 24-bit 192 kHz - 118 dB

Expansion / Connectivity

Interfaces: 1 x audio line-out - RCA x 2 , 1 x headphones - phone stereo 6.3 mm , 1 x audio line-in/microphone , 1 x audio line-in - 4 PIN MPC , 1 x SPDIF output - RCA

Miscellaneous

Cables Included: 1 x audio (optical) adapter

Software / System Requirements

OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Microsoft Windows Vista

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