Reviewers Liked
- Truly Audiophile Sound Quality
- Incredible Separation and Sound Stage
- Excellent Clarity and Detail While Retaining Warmth, Especially Through Headphones
- Swappable OPAMPs for Personalized Sound Coloration
- Full Size Audio Inputs/Outputs
- Outstanding Deep
- Crisp audio output, Near flat frequency response
- Very low noise levels on both line-in and line-out
- Toptier components, such as the capacitors
- Drivers work flawlessly on Vista
- It has a very high signal-to-noise ratio
- Made with high quality components
- Exceptional sound playback
- Stable, intuitive driver
- Compatible with Windows 7
- Clean and pure sound output and control over headphone impedance
- Superb audio quality; dedicated headphone amplifier
- Direct3D, EAX emulation for XP, Vista games
- Terrific headphone support
- Almost too good for low-to-mid-range bit-rate MP3 listening
Reviewers Didn't Like
- No Phono Input
- Need pricey equipment to appreciate the added quality of sound
- EAX emulation isn't quite as good as a native hardware solution
- No hot-keys to quickly alter settings in Xonar Audio Center
- There is no S/PDIF input, output only
- Expensive
- Pricey and lacks full EAX support
- Analog output is stereo-only
- Limited support for multichannel speaker systems
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