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Old 30th September 2011, 08:46   #1
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Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in the dark, fueled primarily by the sudden availability of the card, in conjunction with the excellent reviews and accolades bestowed upon the Xonar series. Heck, our own Geoff Gasior gave the thing an elusive Editor's Choice award a few years ago. For me, this upgrade would come after many consecutive years using integrated motherboard audio exclusively.

In my early days, you would have found me firmly entrenched in the Creative camp, having owned a battery of Sound Blaster cards that included the Vibra16, AWE32, Live! 5.1, Audigy, and Audigy2 ZS. After the Audigy series, I dropped off the sound-card grid entirely. Instead, I opted for ...

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