Review on Enhance Your Audio Experience with the ASUS Strix SOAR Sound Card by Wiktor Tasior ᠌

Definitely not worth the money they ask for it. My dream is to get rid of it at a reasonable price and try Creative products. Has some pros: The sound is definitely better than the built-in sound. Volume reserve - my Sennheiser PC 373d pumps much better than the bundled usb dongle. We must pay tribute, after long dances with a tambourine, even my Sven IHOO 5.1 of shaggy years began to play much more interesting compared to the built-in realtek. Cons below: Disgusting quality and support from the manufacturer. I bought this card after reading reviews and thought that I would avoid unnecessary problems, because. I have an ASUS motherboard - how wrong I was. Without dancing with a tambourine, at least under Windows 10, this sound card cannot really be made to work. As I understand it, the whole problem is in the conflict between the card and the USB controller and Asmedia USB drivers, which should solve this problem. Additional Asmedia USB drivers posted on the ASUS website (i. E. it turns out that ASUS knows that the problem exists) in my case helped only install the drivers of the sound card itself and Sonic Studio (otherwise the installation failed), but some of the functions , (for example, Upmix) did not actually work. As a result of reading numerous forums, it turned out that not all Asmedia drivers are equally useful. As a result, the "correct" driver was found and the card, in general, began to perform its main functions. Further it turned out: 1. The claimed Sonic Radar is nothing more than fiction. of no practical value 2. Surround sound in headphones is more than mediocre in terms of positioning in games. 3. A variety of interference is transmitted to the audio path, because The casing of the sound card actually has nothing to do with shielding - it's just beautiful plastic decorative garbage with a light bulb. 4. Supplemental power required but not required. Most likely it is necessary to power the headphone amplifier with an impedance above 150 ohms.