Xonar D2X Review

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My reviews on the site are never published unless they are good!
First one for those OCZ SSD's and now my review of an Xonar D2X. Neither that harsh, just telling the truth.

Anyhow, my review of the D2X and hopefully a few people will be saved the trouble I went through. Not as good as it would have been as I had a refund for it over a month ago now so I will just put the details I remember here.

The below was all on an OS running WIndows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.
Analog Sound (Green, Black Orange) Out the chanels constantly keep switching, you never know where the sound is going to come out next.

Audio Quality - Anything above 96KHz was massively distorted and so I did not get to use 192KHz until I plugged the optical output into my speakers. But then half of the sound quality lacked a lot of oomph (Maybe due to my speakers not having a good optical converter) which I seemed to get through the analog speakers. Alas through analog I never knew where sound would come out.

Bundled Software - Loads of awesome software that you do plenty with! OW Wait! They DONT bundle any of the cd key. After contacting Asus Support I was told to contact each software vendor seperately with photos of the hardware and discs and receipt to prove that I owned the software, they would then send me out the cd keys! Everyone else on the forum had the same problem.

There was more but as I say it was a while.

For the £111 I paid for the card I expected jaw dropping sound quality with only a couple of minor software niggles that I could quickly resolve! Not the days on end of troubleshooting I went through. Format, Reinstall, removing different components swapping Ram, you name it I tried it.

Ben

P.s. The speakers used with the sound card were Z-5500's. Now back to my onboard RealTek which I am loving for the £0 it cost me it is beatiful in comparison to an Asus Xonar D2X!
 
working flawlessly here with a DX and z5500, with newest beta drivers

not used any other drivers
 
What's the point telling the OP that your soundcard is working flawlessly.
The point of this thread is that his reviews are never published on OcUK because they are not positive.
 
Note as well bledd, that it is a D2X not a DX. And that is also the point. Your £70 sound card is working flawlessly, I go and buy the top of the range card for my new machine and it causes nothing but problems. Which is why I wanted to let people know!
 
I like mine, a lot! ~Never seen this problem with analog switching :S and everything sounds a fair bit better on it than my old onboard sound... (was connected to my old hi-fi untill recently)

Im sure you can put the money to good use though!
 
I never trust any reviews on OCUK simply because I'm yet to see a single bad review of any product they sell. Your post really only confirms that they don't allow them to be posted making sure it looks like everything they sell is a winner.

Tut ocuk.
 
tchan_4 said:
What's the point telling the OP that your soundcard is working flawlessly. .
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My point was that incase he was still after a new soundcard then the D1 is very good, I know a fair few people that have em, and loads of us on here have D1/DX's with very little trouble.

So that while the D2/D2X may be a bit iffy, he might want to try the D1/DX instead.
 
I Truely hate sites with review features on them.

Especially when I need to see a good in depth review of a product only when typed " blah blah review" into Google I get crap loads of store reviews from customers that either whinge or brown nose the product.
 
Reviews to the site should be treated just like the posts here. Live input but moderated to prevent profanity, etc. If a product can't be allowed to carry fair and accurate reviews then the review system is utterly pointless. Anonymous review posting should not be allowed (don't know if it is) that way there is always risk to posting inappropriate material.
 
i have one of those sound cards with Creative GigaWorks 7.1 and when they're used together the sound system is unreal, its like nothing i have ever heard before, almost like having a live band in the comfort of you're own home. Although, i can't wrap my head round why these Razer Mako THX Certified 2.1 Speaker System cost £230 when the 7.1 cost £266?
 
Stonedofmoo said:
I never trust any reviews on OCUK simply because I'm yet to see a single bad review of any product they sell. Your post really only confirms that they don't allow them to be posted making sure it looks like everything they sell is a winner.

Tut ocuk.
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I've noticed that aswell , didn't think much of it at first :eek:
 
D2X has been flawless for me since day one. Sound quality is astonishing in games and movies I feel as though they come alive in my room.

Maybe the OP had a dodgy card or lacked the technical skills to set it up as not heard of anyone have the analog outputs switch on the fly before. Asus have a dedicated support forum for these so maybe worth checking that out as well.

The reason they do not supply the powerdvd key is because Cyberlink insist on this method as in the past people have stolen the keys.

As to negative reviews thats pure BS as I just checked and there are several bad ones floating around even some of the Asus soundcards get slated on here but I think a lot of the time most of what OCUK sell is pretty high quality and a lot of negative issues are caused by user errors when they lack the technical knowledge to make something work.
 
something is very wrong when the onboard Realtek is of higher quality than the D2X.

i'd rate the analog outs on my DX almost up there with my Onkyo 805 receiver which is pretty good considering the sound card retails for about £60 and the receiver was pushing near £1k when released.

bad card, bad installation, bad something for sure.
 
Never had a problem with my D2X either other than some minor glitches with STALKER which aren't really worth mentioning. Sound quality is also superb. You hear sounds in so much more detail than before. Just need to get some decent headphones to make the most of it.
 
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