Review on Enhance Your Gaming Experience with Creative Sound BlasterX AE-5 Plus Pure Edition Sound Card: Unleash the Power of SABRE32 Ultra-Class Audio Technology, Dolby Digital, & DTS by Micha Korkosz ᠌

The card was purchased exclusively for playing games and watching movies. So you need 5.1 sound. Before that, there was Xonar with which it was not possible to establish surround sound. I've had better luck with this card. I connect via optics to a home theater DD and DTS Reproduces adequately, only in terms of optics, the functionality is underestimated in terms of sound quality, unlike headphones. (See screenshot) To be honest, between 16 bits and 32, I didn’t catch much difference, Maybe you need good headphones. Yesterday, all day, as soon as I connected it and set it up in every possible way, there was some kind of incomprehensible crack every 5-7 seconds. And sometimes without stopping until the moment of correction)) (See screenshot) I don't watch it today In addition, she has a number of other problems, often she confuses the channels. It doesn’t matter if you play or listen to music, it can be confused and, for example, the central sound channel can play not in the center, but somewhere behind the right or left))) Also, when idle, if it’s stupid not to turn on something on your computer, sometimes it’s only 1 minute and sometimes 10-30 minutes, then you turn on, for example, a movie, and again a mess with sound)))) The backlight also falls off, for example, a rainbow was set up, and it takes 10-20 minutes twisted it and with a hint further itself, does not respond to the settings)) Stupidly lit with one or two colors, closing the application does not help . In defense, I can say that the settings do not go astray, at least for me) As a result, in comparison with the built-in, the cinema itself produces a fairly decent sound, but as soon as I connected this card, I immediately understood what I paid for, the bass became rich and even, the sound was noticeably clearer and more voluminous. No matter how much I read the comments when choosing a sound card, I realized one thing that each has its own headaches. Of course, I understand that most likely the problems that I wrote here this is due to driver compatibility, but not a fact! Officials say that this card supports Windows 11 and that they tested it on 21H2 22022 I have exactly the same . How they tested it there is unclear .