Review on Enhanced Metallic Gray Creative Sound Blaster AE-9 by Micha Kamierczak ᠌

I listen with Sennheiser HD 600 (open) and HD 820 (closed-back). The power of the amplifier is enough, including for HD 820. I don’t see any reason to buy some HDV820 for a PC that costs more than 170 kilorubles, especially since there can be a greater sound delay through usb than through pci-e. Of course, I will buy a separate amp for the HD 820 someday, but it will be a custom tube amplifier, and not a diode combine like the HDV820. I ordered an opera LT1469CN8 + OPA627BP from the states, which should additionally reveal the potential of the DAC. : LT1469CN8+OPA627BP came, installed, I really liked the sound with them, the separation of instruments is better, and the bass is denser. Added a photo of new operas, DAC and interconnect connector from the side of the board. Somewhere I read an opinion that such isolation of the soldering place with some kind of insulator is a sign of repair, I'm not sure, I took a new card in a chain store in St. Petersburg, the packaging was closed with seals, there were no signs of use, there was not a speck of dust on the plan, as with factory.