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Review on ๐ŸŽง ASUS Strix RAID DLX 7.1 PCIe Gaming Sound Card - Enhanced with High-Performance Headphone Amp (600ohm), Audiophile-Grade DAC, and 124dB SNR by Michael Miles

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Quality sound card with features but some are missing

I choose 4 start because it's a good card, good drivers and features, but one feature is mostly missing - FlexBass or bass redirection which was on the old driver or other Cards like the Xonar Phoebus with old drivers and the Sonic Control Panel are no longer there. Drivers work perfectly. The card uses the Asmedia USB 3.0 controller chipset, so you must be careful not to install the Asmedia drivers in Windows Device Manager as the Sound Card Controller Host Chipset. This causes problems. You need to make sure you are using the Microsoft Asmedia host controller driver. You can do this by installing the Asmedia drivers manually, or simply resorting to the Microsoft driver on the sound card's USB host afterwards. did why not this one which costs the same. For me, I have a ZXR mic that I plugged in and it works fine. I thought I could connect a Xonar Phoebus mic, but I think it's a different connector, needs to be checked. I'm not sure which one is better quality. Finally, the quality is excellent. As for Virtual Surround, I haven't used it much. but I think it's a bit better than the Creative SBX.

Pros
  • Sleek design
Cons
  • is embarrassing