New EVGA Nu Audio Pro Soundcard

R3X · 22 Nov 2019 at 15:22

Did they not release the Nu Audio just 5 minutes ago ?

https://www.techpowerup.com/261313/evga-announces-the-nu-audio-pro-7-1-sound-cards

Full details

https://www.evga.com/articles/01376/evga-nu-audio-pro/

Feels like its trying to go head to head with the Creative AE-9

Now when are Creative going to release X-fi Sound cards...

Yaayuh! · 22 Nov 2019 at 17:12

Scrolling down their marketing page where they show it all off as quality and literally started laughing at the cringy picture of the "Home Cinema" branded cheapo speakers at the bottom.

Safetytrousers · 22 Nov 2019 at 17:26

It seems a bit ridiculous to me given you are dependent on the quality of the digital decoding at the speaker end, and moreover the quality of the speakers themselves. Making those two things of sufficiently high quality to justify a supposed pinnacle source signal device is very expensive indeed. Diminishing returns are at play there.

RSR · 22 Nov 2019 at 23:42

I'll probably pick one up when they are out.

R3X · 23 Nov 2019 at 00:03

RSR said:
I'll probably pick one up when they are out.

50 dollar rebate if you pre order it atm but i think they run out of stock quickly

RSR · 23 Nov 2019 at 11:00

R3X said:
50 dollar rebate if you pre order it atm but i think they run out of stock quickly

As far as I know you can't order them from the US site to the UK and the EU site is shocking.

I already run the Nu Audio card which is quiet impressive.

R3X · 23 Nov 2019 at 15:06

RSR said:
As far as I know you can't order them from the US site to the UK and the EU site is shocking.

I already run the Nu Audio card which is quiet impressive.

Ahh but crappy, hopefully they offer some deal down the road.

Have you ever compared your Nu sound card to any Creative cards like AE5-7-9 type cards by chance ?

theforce · 24 Nov 2019 at 00:52

Either of these offerings from EVGA or Creative an upgrade from an Asus Xonar Essence STX? The Asus card is currently connected to some Creative T20 2.0 speakers and HD650 headphones. I want to transfer my current audio card to the PC at work since the onboard sound card from that PC sounds atrocious compared to the Xonar.

yashiro · 28 Nov 2019 at 06:00

If your Xonar still works correctly, then no.