**** Power Colour Devil HDX 7.1 Sound Card****
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Soldato
Interested in this, but how much should I be concerned about support for drivers/software?
Soldato
I've been using one while playing Witcher 3 and listening to music (FLAC) and I'm liking the sound, very impressed for the price.
It has a powerful headphone amp which has no trouble driving my AKG K702s or HD650s at silly volumes.
At a loud but still comfortable volume I used the following settings while listening to music:
AKG K702 = 40%
Sennheiser HD650 = 30%
Fidue A73 IEMs = 10%
The noise floor was very low with the sensitive IEMs so shouldn't be a problem with low impedance headphones or headsets.
I haven't yet managed to compare it head to head with the STX (only got it late on Friday) but I am really enjoying the sound, specially with my HD650s, they seem to have a punchier bass than I'm used to.
My initial thoughts are that it's a very good sound card but it's not perfect...
If you want to use a microphone then you either have to also install the daughter board OR enable front panel audio as there is no socket on the sound card itself.
If you do install the daughter board you are restricted to where you can put it because the ribbon cables are rather short.
Everything works very well as long as you keep the sampling rate to 44.1kHz or 48kHz. If you select a higher frequency (I have some music that goes right up to 192kHz) then you are greeted by some rather nasty distortion whenever you try using any of the processing features, though everything remains clear as a bell if you choose the music preset, which bypasses the processor.
I don't yet know whether this is a driver issue, a Windows 10 compatibility issue (Windows 8/8.1 drivers won't even install), a hardware issue or even whether the card is faulty yet, so please don't judge it on what I've said so far - it's very early days (I only got it late on Friday) and I need to dig deeper.
If you never use higher sampling rates than 48kHz and most people don't, then this is a real bargain.
ps. they really need to sort their driver download page - I managed a whole 9kB/sec download speed and that's while using an accelerator
It has a powerful headphone amp which has no trouble driving my AKG K702s or HD650s at silly volumes.
At a loud but still comfortable volume I used the following settings while listening to music:
AKG K702 = 40%
Sennheiser HD650 = 30%
Fidue A73 IEMs = 10%
The noise floor was very low with the sensitive IEMs so shouldn't be a problem with low impedance headphones or headsets.
I haven't yet managed to compare it head to head with the STX (only got it late on Friday) but I am really enjoying the sound, specially with my HD650s, they seem to have a punchier bass than I'm used to.
My initial thoughts are that it's a very good sound card but it's not perfect...
If you want to use a microphone then you either have to also install the daughter board OR enable front panel audio as there is no socket on the sound card itself.
If you do install the daughter board you are restricted to where you can put it because the ribbon cables are rather short.
Everything works very well as long as you keep the sampling rate to 44.1kHz or 48kHz. If you select a higher frequency (I have some music that goes right up to 192kHz) then you are greeted by some rather nasty distortion whenever you try using any of the processing features, though everything remains clear as a bell if you choose the music preset, which bypasses the processor.
I don't yet know whether this is a driver issue, a Windows 10 compatibility issue (Windows 8/8.1 drivers won't even install), a hardware issue or even whether the card is faulty yet, so please don't judge it on what I've said so far - it's very early days (I only got it late on Friday) and I need to dig deeper.
If you never use higher sampling rates than 48kHz and most people don't, then this is a real bargain.
ps. they really need to sort their driver download page - I managed a whole 9kB/sec download speed and that's while using an accelerator
I've emailed power color as Like I said
It ran on win 7 at 192/24
It ran on win 7 at 192/24
Soldato
cheers TwST 
yeah I think so.
Soldato
Off to download it now 
see you in a week ha
Soldato
I'm still only seeing the beta from September 17th, which is what I am using - that's the Taiwan site, should I be getting it from somewhere else?
I will check for you,
Soldato
Thank ye kindly sir
Soldato
sen you a trust TwsT regarding the secret AKGs 
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
rids I've sent you an email with a new driver
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Soldato
It's the same beta driver I already had, from September
fml
quite possibly.
Soldato
I've got one of these sitting in my basket, i've clicked check out 3 times I just can't commit to buying it. I don't know why.. The reviews say yes, price is good. I just don't know..