推荐型号:STRIX RAID DL、STRIX RAID PRO、STX II 7.1 Essence STX II、STX II 7.1
ASUS is a brand that many users are too familiar with, and in the field of 3C digital, ASUS is almost everywhere. ASUS laptops, graphics cards, motherboards, routers, network cards, and more are all products that many users are using or are ready to buy.
If the notebook and board are ASUS's product lines with a strong sense of presence, then ASUS discrete sound cards have almost no presence, because for the vast majority of DIY gamers, the sound card is not a necessary component, and the integrated sound card in the motherboard is also enough for the general public to use.
ASUS didn't start to get involved in the sound card field until 2007, and this point in time can be said to be quite subtle, or rather, quite confident, because this era can be said to be the era of AC97 integrated sound card, independent sound cards have declined, and it is unlikely to return to the foreseeable future, and the current industry is not optimistic about the prospects of the sound card market.
But ASUS obviously has a different perception of this, according to ASUS, as long as the positioning is accurate, any product can find enough living space. Computers will be more involved in daily life, and users' needs for PCs will be more focused on audio-visual subjective feelings, not just limited to performance, which cannot be met by onboard sound cards. Therefore, ASUS obviously has its own considerations for launching sound cards, and it is not the nature of playing tickets, and it is true, in 2012, ASUS's share exceeded 12%, ranking second, becoming the main competitor of innovation in fact.
Since the launch of the first Xonar series of discrete sound cards in 2007, ASUS has continued to release sound card products, most recently the ASUS Strix series of sound cards released in late 2015. Anyone who knows a little bit about DIY knows that the ASUS Strix series of graphics cards, motherboards, and headphones are all aimed at the high-end gaming market, and the sound card is also named like this, which is very obvious.
ASUS Strix series sound cards include STRIX RAID DL, STRIX RAID PRO, and STRIX SOAR, all of which are 7.1-channel PCI-E built-in sound cards, and the audio chip uses C-Media's high-end CM6632AX, with a sampling accuracy of 192kHz/24bit, and is equipped with desktop controllers except for Strix Soar. The biggest highlight of the series is the "Sonic Radar" feature, which shows the location of gunshots and footsteps in the game.
The Strix Raid DLX is the flagship of the series, with a signal-to-noise ratio of 124db, and the ESS ES9016 DAC and LME46900 headphone amps are better, and the price of 1400 yuan is also the highest in the series. In contrast, the Raid Pro uses a slightly lower Sabre 9006A DAC, the headphone amp has also been replaced with a TPA6120A2, and the 116dB signal-to-noise ratio is also slightly inferior to the Strix Raid DLX, with a price of nearly 1,000 yuan. It should be noted that none of these three sound cards have KSong or live broadcast functions.
If you just want to enjoy a higher HIFI effect, ASUS also has the Xonar Essence series, which is also commonly referred to as the "Tiger Card" due to the tiger stripes printed on the sound card casing. The main difference between the currently available products is the Essence STX II and STX II 7.1, but the 7.1 version has an additional expansion card for 7.1 channel sound. As a rare pure Hi-Fi sound card at present, the signal-to-noise ratio of the Essence STX II series has reached an astonishing 124dB, the price is about 2000 yuan, and the stereo version without a daughter card is about 1300 yuan, if it is just used to experience HIFI, the stereo version is also enough to meet the needs.
