**** Power Colour Devil HDX 7.1 Sound Card****

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Yes your eyes do not deceive you and and nor will your ears!!!!! Powercolor are entering the Soundcard market with a reasonably priced competitor to the ROG phoebus.

PowerColor Devil HDX 7.1 Channel Soundcard @ £89.99 inc VAT

Introducing the PowerColor Devil HDX Soundcard, Using supreme quality components and excellent layout design to reach the top 124dB SNR, and offer crystal clear sound quality to audiophiles and gamers.

Key Features:-
- Up to 124dB vs 90dB (Average onboard audio)
- Wolfson WM8741 Hi-FI DAC
- Nichicon MUSE Audio Capacitors
- Separate power supply without causing interference
- Swappable op-amp sockets allows audiophiles to create own timbres and tonal combinations
- Built-in headphone amplifier supports up to 600 ohm headphone
- 7.1 channel daughter board provides true surround sound









Only £89.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

 

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Wolfson DACs are brilliant and the WM8741 is no slouch - nor is it an entry level chip, very surprised to see it here at such a price point.
Swappable OP-amps is interesting too...

Any review samples being sent around like with the U7s, TwsT? I have the WM8740 in my current DAC and the two have similar retails, would be interesting to compare them.

oddly enough I'm sending it to rids i'm sure i can send it out again afterwards

 

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Does this have any Dolby Live or DTS connect for its optical out? or will Optical out only support 2.0?

and 7.1-channel optical SPDIF (TOSLINK) outputs according to tech power up however I can't confirm it. As marsman says it has no licensing so it's probably only 2.0

 

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It would be awesomely good if the software support was decent. That would really show Creative and Asus up.

C-Media so the software will be pretty much identical to the phoebus software

it works well enough even though at first it's a bit confusing.

 

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It's all about preference, I find the virtual surround features on all soundcards horrible now. Just got so used to stereo from the DAC.

 

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yeah I've not used surround speakers since my Cambridge audio 4.1 beige beasts

 

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I've emailed power color as Like I said

It ran on win 7 at 192/24

 

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yeah I think so.

 

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HI James,

Just check with our product team.

They said it is a Win10 driver issue.
On our website, we have release beta test driver to fix the issue while working on the official driver release for it.

Therefore, the card itself is fine.

 

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see you in a week ha

 

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I will check for you,

 

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ok jony my trust is totally broken atm i'll trust you my email.

rids I've sent you an email with a new driver

 

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fml

 

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quite possibly.

 

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do it

it's the best sound card on the market for the price point if you're like me and don't use any "features". That said new win 10 Drivers will hopefully fix that problem as all of the features worked fine for me on win 7 but I suppose that they are at the mercy of C-Media for those fixes.

 

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Finally! thanks rids

 

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ha will see if we can do it

 

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IIRC there was a low impedance high impedance option but i can't be sure and rids has the card i tested.

As for black friday i think i've reduced it for TWO but can't put it on a BF deal as it's not really a "crazy deal"

 

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i might be wrong been a while since i used it

 

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Good choice.