Most built in audio cards can only handle up to about 32 ohms at best. If you ever use headphones for gaming or listening to music and all you have is the built in audio that came with your motherboard you have to get one of these cards! As with most gaming or quality headphones they have larger speakers in them with more powerful drivers (magnets) that create a higher resistance (ohms) and require more power (watts) to move them and create the sound. Probably my favorite feature this card has is the built in headphone amp, which as it turns out is reason enough to buy this card.
Now keep in mind this was not as good as sitting in recording studio with some high end audio equipment but it was significantly better than the stock audio that came on the motherboard. Subtle sounds and details that I hadn’t noticed before could be picked out distinctly and clearly. Suddenly the sound became bigger, louder and at the same time softer and crisper. I was pleasantly surprised when I slipped in the ASUS Xonar DG PCI sound card to one of my testing rigs and was blown away at what my ears had been missing. Interestingly enough one area we often neglect or flat out ignore is the audio experience our computers can provide … or not provide. Eye popping graphics, blazing frame rates, near pre-cognitive response times are often times all we think of.
I know we are always looking for the next great video card or the fastest processor to make our computing experience even more enjoyable.
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