I currently have a Creative X-Fi Titanium and was surprised to see that they are not well regarded. Well, suprised, because I've not been an expert on sound cards and didn't know Creative is not as ...
I just inserted an Asus Xonar SE ($69) sound card. It works in a new Intel i5-12400 boxen. I spend enough time in the office to listen to sound and music through a more than decent Yamaha / Dynaudio ...
The first thing to stand out is the poor pairing of the ASUS sound card and the BeyerDynamic DT 231 headphones. It seems the card really does want to drive higher impedance headphones and telling it ...