welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zonard DG and really the relevance
of this product to me is mostly to do with my obsession about headphone amp
sound card so this is one of the better values you can get for a headphone amp
sound card because it's still um a mid-range sound card so it's not super
lowend by any stretch of the imagination but it's not like expensive either and
there might have been something supposed to be in there oh cool it comes with a low profile bracket although I can't
even begin to imagine what that would be useful for um I mean what are you
installing this in that you need like an amped headphone out cuz I was thinking
media PC but then I was like well when would you ever plug headphones into a
media PC I don't know either way I love it
because it has a headphone app okay it's
got Dolby headphone for realistic 5.1 surround so has virtual round it's also
got gx2.5 which gx2.5 allows up to 128
simultaneous effects for a realistic 3D experience and if you don't have it then
you game with 3D video but only lame bulky
audio all right moving right along what else we got Jack sensing
front panels that's handy so even if you accidentally plug them into the wrong thing in the dark then you know um that
won't cause a problem although I don't recommend usually plugging things into
the wrong thing in the dark because that can cause problems we've also got output
signal ratio of 105 DB for 5.1 Channel
okay input okay so there's a bunch of specs and whatnot it's a PCI sound card
uses a c media chipset okay cool let's have a look at
the sound card itself so it comes with drivers ignore those download the latest it comes with two quick start
guides amazing uh
why English not English okay hold on
this this must be a packaging error there's no way oh no look at this
they're both no way they're both English
but they both have a bunch of other different
languages um I guess this was better
than doing one thick book somehow uh okay low profile bracket
extra screws and let's have a look at the sound card itself so you find the
usual assortment of colorcoded jacks that are compatible with 5.1 out as well
as a microphone in you've also got an optical audio out so you can use that if
you're outputting to digital uh receiver
or digital speakers or whatever the case may be there's your cdia chipset right
there there's your PCI interface there's
your front panel audio as well as your auxiliary in and spit if out and that's
pretty much it I mean it's straightforward the whole point is its
good value it's got an apt headphone output and that's pretty much all I need
to know about it to know that that you should probably get one if you don't have a sound card at all and you don't
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