There are likely to be two main audiences for the ASUS Essence STX II; Audiophiles, and those seeking only the best possible products in their system. Which category you fall into depends largely upon how much sense you made of the above.
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ASUS have a solid reputation for quality and premium products and when it comes to sound cards, only 2 names really come to mind for general consumers; ASUS and Creative. There are of course alternative options to these 2 brands and with the emergence...
It has been a while since ASUS's great debut into the world of high-end sound cards with their release of the first ST. Various versions have popped up since, including the well-performing PCIe-based STX for many audiophiles with newer motherboards. The...
Asus has a new version of the wonderful Essence STX audio card out. It's essentially the same card, with only minor updates to some of the secondary components. That, we don't mind at all, because unchanged is Hi-Fi that's, technically at least,...
I have a feeling that if you're looking at the Essence II, you already know well enough what you're interested in. This is a dedicated piece of hardware, a clear step up above its predecessor. It's the best internal solution on the market, coming close...
There are likely to be two main audiences for the ASUS Essence STX II; Audiophiles, and those seeking only the best possible products in their system. Which category you fall into depends largely upon how much sense you made of the above.
The Xonar Essence STX II 7.1 comes in as a very powerful audio unit that arguably provides the some of the highest quality audio you will get from a discrete sound card out-the-box. The daughter board expands the STX II to a top class multimedia device,...
To our ears, using our gear, the Essence STX II, is an amazing sounding card for the price point. ASUS is definitely pushing the bar higher in the soundcard world with the release of the STX II. People we have our answer: Yes, the Essence STX II is a...
Join us as we test and review the ASUS Essence STX II 7.1 sound card. Asus has some very big shoes to fill and a possibly a more impressive feat of surpassing such well known audio cards, the questio... Read more...
Damals Standard, heute überholt? Keineswegs. Die Asus Xonar Essence STX II 7.1 zeigt, was dedizierte Soundkarten im Vergleich zu onboard Lösungen leisten können. Da wäre der 7.1 Sound, den zwar weniger Gamer nutzen dürften, die bis zu 192 kHz...
Evolution statt Revolution ist das Motto der Asus Xonar Essence STX II. Die klanglichen Verbesserungen zu den Vorgängern ST und STX fallen eher marginal aus. Dafür vereint sie jetzt die zeitgemäße PCIe-x1-Schnittstelle der STX mit der...