Asus Xonar DX - Your EQ setups.

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Hey guys,

I just received my card today, installed it and everything. Nice step-up from my borked X-Fi, but it sounds a little "flat" to me. Not very punchy.

So... I was curious, can people post images of their settings for me, im curious as to what you guys have adjusted etc :)

I listen to metal and rock mainly, so any input with this in mind would be great!

Jihad im looking at you ;)
 
none at all. dont need it:) I got a d2 but they are in essence the same card. if your card sounds flat and 'not punchy' then drop *** midrange a few db and turn the volume up. always cut, never gain on an eq. thats good advice to stick by.

either that or look at your speakers, my d2 really sings on my setup
 
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none at all. dont need it:) I got a d2 but they are in essence the same card. if your card sounds flat and 'not punchy' then drop *** midrange a few db and turn the volume up. always cut, never gain on an eq. thats good advice to stick by.

either that or look at your speakers, my d2 really sings on my setup
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The man speaks the truth :D

I run with no EQ presets at all, not even hi-fi or music and it sounds amazing.

There's a bass equaliser preset in one of the Xonar sub menus with a slider...I forgot the real name. If that's switched on, it does sound very flat indeed by default.
 
"Flexbass". its to enable the crossover for the subwoofer. without it, full range get's set to the front speakers. its only handy if your using the analogue outputs to drive an amp or set of speaker that doesnt do bass management on the multi channel analogue inputs - my av amp doesnt for instance. otherwise the speakers would handle this anyway so its best to leave it off.
 
oh ive just thought about this. "no eq" isnt really true in my case. i did full measurement using Room EQ wizard which measures the frequency response across the range. it can produce a wav file that the convolver plugin for foobar2000 can read and equalise the system with at much higher precision and quality than a software equaliser.. the net result is something pretty damn good but im still tweaking it now. once i tweak out the drop at about 58hz, ill have an in-room response from 10hz to 80hz of +/- 3db.
 
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Blokey57 said:
Hey guys,

I just received my card today, installed it and everything. Nice step-up from my borked X-Fi, but it sounds a little "flat" to me. Not very punchy.

So... I was curious, can people post images of their settings for me, im curious as to what you guys have adjusted etc :)

I listen to metal and rock mainly, so any input with this in mind would be great!

Jihad im looking at you ;)
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Don't use any EQ sorry. :p
 
Well, i've now taken the time to listen more with no EQ, it does seem ok tbh, i think i must've had a bit of a fuzzy head this morning! Cheers for the advice guys :)
 
Here's mine. Lol sorry I love eq.... please don't stone me to death. haha. This is played back through my 2.1 hi-fi setup. Works well. :)

EQ
eq.jpg


Bass
eq_bass.jpg


DSP (I have none turned on)
eq_dsp.jpg


Bass is probably the only thing that you'd need to fiddle with (between Large and Small) as mine is setup for a sub. :)
 
Got my D2X a not long ago, On default EQ it sounded horrible to my ears :( I finally went through all of the presets and 'soft rock' sounded the best to me, Though nothing I listen to could be called soft rock :P Interested in trying some other peoples settings though, Turning all of the DSP effects off worked wonders too, Sounded really, really weird with them on.
 
I didn't like any of the pre-set ones, they were all really strange...

Also, few more questions, in the main menu part, what does the "FP" stand for in FP 2 Speakers and FP headphones in the Analog Out drop selection??

And should i stick the sample rate to it's highest value?

How come there's no 2.1 option as well, unless thats covered under 2 speakers?
 
hm... "FP" i dont know, dont have that on my D2. the sample rate should ideally be set to whatever your listening to at the time. so 44.1khz for music, 48khz for games most probably. it really makes little difference but from the testing ive done, 44.1khz edges it out for music.

2.1.....thats covered under the 2 speaker setting. just enable the FlexBass for the subwoofer output. 2 speakers + sub = 2.1:)
 
Weird, wonder why i have FP then, hehe.

The subwoofer works without enabling it though, so hmmm, i guess i'll just have a play around with that and see. :)
 
if youre speakers or amp can do that then yeah. in which case turning on flexbass would have the opposite effect.

say you have an amp or speakers that can accept multi channel analogue and stereo analogue.

* if you send multichannel ANALOGUE audio (5.1 for example), stereo music will be sent to the two front channels using the full sound range. assume that most amps cant perform any dsp work on a multi channel analogue input (so no crossover). if you are using satellites this is obviously unacceptable as the sub wouldnt be used and it would sound rubbish. so you turn on flexbass and dirvert anything under that slider poiint to the sub. sorted.

if you send analogue stereo (2 channel) and activate flexbass, the soundcard will do the crossover duty and divert anything below where that slider is set to the subwoofer channel and cut it from the main channels. however as you are only sending stereo to the amp, all you end up doing is cutting everything below that slider point - so no bass.

stereo over spdif (sent as PCM) shouldnt need Flexbass enabled as the amp or speakers should do the duty.


things get confusing if you have speakers or an amp that can accept a multi channel digital audio feed (ie, DD/DTS over spdif or hdmi) as they will do their own crossover duty on any signals being received over digital. in which case you leave flexbass off. turning it on when the amp/speakers are already crossing over for the sub will only cause problems.
Example: your amp crosses over at 80hz for the sub, but you set 120hz on the soundcard. the soundcard will cut anything from 120hz down and feed it to the subwoofer channel, while the amp is trying to crossover anything from 80hz down. you end up losing pretty much everything between 80 and 120hz from the main channels and possible the sub as well depending on whether you can set seperate crossovers for the mains speakers and the subwoofer (most amps cant do this)

*breath* i think that makes sense lol
 
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I think it does make sense yes, hehe, i did a bit of studio work ages ago for my uni course, but the theory went in one ear and out the other it seems :(

I understand all of what you're saying, i just wouldnt be able to say anything technical back at you, lol :D
 
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