ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 7.1 Channel PCI-E Sound Card w/HDMI 1.3 Compliance Retail Reviews

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What can I say? I moved from an Auzentech to the Asus Xonar Slim 1.3 in my HTPC and am I happy!! I never thought that having bitstreamed HD audio would be that noticeable. from Amazon.com This review is going to be Home Theater PC focused since lets face it, if you're not building or using an HTPC this isn't a part you're looking for. If you're like me you bought a video card that supported HDCP for your HTPC that also supported 8 channel audio, bought your bluray drive, setup your HTPC and then found out you were watching great HD video but the equivalent of SD audio. Why current video cards don't support protected audio pathway so they can produce the new lossless DTSHD-MA or Dolby TrueHD without down sampling them to DVD quality is beyond me. from Amazon.com i used to have creativer elite one which is the latest in the soundblaster, never had prb or crush in widnows, now this card is better in sound yes, and funcation but really crush many times, i wish asus do something about it, and fix there lama program, there hardware is good, but not software. from Amazon.com Its good sound card but not upto my expectation. I expected more than this from asus. First of all we need to get latest driver from asus support site. from Amazon.com This is a much needed product in the HTPC market, but there are still a lot of problems with this card that have yet to be sorted out. Asus is a great company who makes phenomenal products and I'm sure that they will get this one up and running, but at this point in time (11/5/08) it simply isn't the product as advertised. [...] from Amazon.com so this wasn't what i would have called an easy install, but after some tinkering in various audio based configuration screens, it's all working now and it sounds fantastic. from Amazon.com it's best to start with a fresh install of os. from Amazon.com i have a windows 7 media center set-up that this card runs smoothly on with no problems for full blu-ray audio. from Amazon.com the total sound experience is just clean, clear and crisp sounding. from Amazon.com if you're like me you bought a video card that supported hdcp for your htpc that also supported 8 channel audio, bought your bluray drive, setup your htpc and then found out you were watching great from Amazon.com