I've had my Auzentech forte for about 2 years now. The mic port died after about 6 months, but I just started using onboard. Now the whole thing is dying, and not even getting recognized by windows. I'm looking to buy a new sound card, and the last time I researched, HT Omega cards were one of the best choices. I want to avoid creative drivers, and am willing to spend 100-200 dollars on a new card. Is the HT Omega Claro Plus still a good choice these days?
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Auzentech Forte is dying
- Thread starter M4573R
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I didn't realize Auzentech was such poor quality. It sounds like there's one choice I should go with, thanks guys.
Edit: Small clarification: It looks like the only difference between the D2X and the Essence STX is the line outs and a headphone amplifier. My local Fry's actually has the D2X for much cheaper than newegg, so I don't really see a problem with getting it, unless there's a reason to find the STX.
Edit: Small clarification: It looks like the only difference between the D2X and the Essence STX is the line outs and a headphone amplifier. My local Fry's actually has the D2X for much cheaper than newegg, so I don't really see a problem with getting it, unless there's a reason to find the STX.
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Turns out Fry's is out of stock and not ordering any more. Newegg is out, and there's none on amazon. Any suggestions of where to get the D2X?
you need to catch them when they are around, newegg seems to be getting stock every now and again. Given that its the highest quality analog 8 channel sound card you can get your hands on for consumer. like you said, only downside is its missing the headphone tuned output(think the stx is optimized for 300 ohm headphones?)
comparing the care they took to make sure the analog channels are noise free to other companies offerings is almost ridiculous
heres a picture of it without the dumb plastic thing:
http://ryujiwarui.com/pictures/IMG_1537.JPG
most xfi type cards will have 4 two channel opamps max from what i've seen. asus used 20. Reasoning is the best way to get high gain, low noise in opamp circuits is to use more then one gain stage of low gain compared to a single high gain stage.
you need to research if its worth the money to you, but if your in it for the analog output quality(better then any reasonably priced HT system, given you have a nice amplifier on the other side) i recall asus making a daughterboard for the stx for giving the analog outputs
my forte kept crashing BSOD when I started gaming. It took me forever to resolve the problem because I kept blaming the video card. It turns out that the forte was the problem, it crashed games for some reason so now Auzentech just released a driver fix almost 1 year later!!
I've got a pair of A5's that I'm using.
Audioengine A5? thats what i found doing a google search at least. if so, class AB is pretty decent for built in amplifier and freq response is good. you probably want to go after analog signal quality like i did, but as you apparently are not concerned with more then two channels (?) the Xonar Essence STX would suit you well. If your willing to give creative one last go, i recall Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD having good hw specs/quality
DSP is indeed better, you use an open air mic? i havent played with noise canceling because it only works with two channel. i do like the fact that you can manually control the LFE crossover freq tho and you got a equalizer for messing around with your audio
EAX emulation is somewhat a moot point, the ASIO is great tho if your into recording
EAX emulation is somewhat a moot point, the ASIO is great tho if your into recording