Saturday, November 23rd 2013
ASUS Launches the Xonar D-KARAX Sound Card
ASUS today announced Xonar D-KARAX, a professional-grade sound card designed for singing enthusiasts that like to sing and share their songs online.
Designed by leading music-industry engineers, Xonar D-KARAX helps eager amateur singers shape their voice and indulge in the latest trend of sharing personal songs online. Xonar D-KARAX is a PCI-Express sound card offers 96KHz/24-bit playback, real-time audio processing, 7.1 audio and a 106dB SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). Singers can apply and hear audio effects in real-time with no playback lag, a sophisticated feature previously the preserve of professional recording studios.
Professional quality, professional effects, pure simplicity
ASUS Xonar D-KARAX is stuffed with studio-grade vocal effects that help aspiring singers immerse themselves in a professional performance environment. The clear and simple user interface lets users set up and start singing in just three simple steps, while studio-grade sound effects help singers sound like stars. Vocal effects such as high- and low-pass filters, voice equalization, dynamic boost, reverb and compression can be applied with a single mouse click, along with ready-made master profiles tuned by music engineers to suit different music genres.
No lag and no noise
A hardware-based Cirrus Logic CS47028C DSP (digital-signal processor) means Xonar D-KARAX has extremely low microphone latency, so the singer's voice stays in perfect time with the backing track. By comparison, sound cards that lack a hardware DSP can introduce input lag of up to 500ms.
Xonar D-KARAX also benefits from exclusive ASUS Hyper Grounding technology with a multi-layer PCB (printed-circuit board) that eliminates noise by separating the power supply and digital signals from sensitive analog signals.
Designed by leading music-industry engineers, Xonar D-KARAX helps eager amateur singers shape their voice and indulge in the latest trend of sharing personal songs online. Xonar D-KARAX is a PCI-Express sound card offers 96KHz/24-bit playback, real-time audio processing, 7.1 audio and a 106dB SNR (signal-to-noise ratio). Singers can apply and hear audio effects in real-time with no playback lag, a sophisticated feature previously the preserve of professional recording studios.
ASUS Xonar D-KARAX is stuffed with studio-grade vocal effects that help aspiring singers immerse themselves in a professional performance environment. The clear and simple user interface lets users set up and start singing in just three simple steps, while studio-grade sound effects help singers sound like stars. Vocal effects such as high- and low-pass filters, voice equalization, dynamic boost, reverb and compression can be applied with a single mouse click, along with ready-made master profiles tuned by music engineers to suit different music genres.
No lag and no noise
A hardware-based Cirrus Logic CS47028C DSP (digital-signal processor) means Xonar D-KARAX has extremely low microphone latency, so the singer's voice stays in perfect time with the backing track. By comparison, sound cards that lack a hardware DSP can introduce input lag of up to 500ms.
Xonar D-KARAX also benefits from exclusive ASUS Hyper Grounding technology with a multi-layer PCB (printed-circuit board) that eliminates noise by separating the power supply and digital signals from sensitive analog signals.
23 Comments on ASUS Launches the Xonar D-KARAX Sound Card
this one does not even have full-size jack or XLR ghosting connectors
They seem to be able to hype anything to the point where i literally drop my pants and start furiously masturbating unfortunately only to find out theres no happy ending....
I wont buy another of their sound products for a long time to come.
but seriously, integrated audio is getting better and better and some mobos even have some creative chips in them, IMO they don't have to make such a "variety" of soundcards it's just a waste of money
On another topic what happened to cmedia audio chips? Back in the day they were the best integrated chips IMO maybe even better than Realtek
EDIT: I remember now. There's HT Omega that uses C-media chips as well.
What I said about integrated audio chips not being Creative, I did because you can install their software on motherboards that don't have the X-Fi sticker. I even tried it on mine, out of curiosity, and it worked.
these images were taken from this review site: www.itfiles.ro/2011/06/asus-corsshair-v-formula-un-loc-asigurat-in-republic-of-gamers-pentru-bulldozer/2/
www.itfiles.ro/2011/06/asus-corsshair-v-formula-un-loc-asigurat-in-republic-of-gamers-pentru-bulldozer/2/
scroll down and you would see more shots of the realtek chip underneath the supremefx sticker, it was pretty much common knowledge that they were using creative software over the realtek chip, surprised that you were the one who brought this up but wouldn't acknowledge it later.
So, that led me to think you were challenging my claims. As the only immediate evidence I possess is the fact the software is installable on Realtek hardware, I used the aforementioned as my argument -- I didn't feel like doing research to prove my point. It's a matter of effort rather than acknoledgement. So yeah, call me lazy all you want. ;)
Anyhow, I hope you didn't take it too badly. I really didn't mean to be rude or anything. I guess I get challenged so often (both on Internet forums and in real life) that I tend to assume a lot that people try to challenge my claims.
About this being common knowledge... I don't really know if that's pertinent or not. I mean, you'll find the most fervent defenders of this or that brand on every forum out there (I'm not telling you you're that kinda person, just that some people will throw a tantrum at whatever negative comment you make on their favorite brand). That's why I usually ignore that parameter and just go with hard evidence.
Wow, that was a long reply. I think this warrants a summary.
tl;dr: Apologies for accusing you, that pic just looked too weird!
While you're off getting rich I'm stuck using 3rd party drivers.