ASUS Xonar DG Headphone Amp 5.1 Sound Card Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zonard DG and really the relevance
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of this product to me is mostly to do with my obsession about headphone amp
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sound card so this is one of the better values you can get for a headphone amp
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sound card because it's still um a mid-range sound card so it's not super
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lowend by any stretch of the imagination but it's not like expensive either and
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there might have been something supposed to be in there oh cool it comes with a low profile bracket although I can't
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even begin to imagine what that would be useful for um I mean what are you
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installing this in that you need like an amped headphone out cuz I was thinking
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media PC but then I was like well when would you ever plug headphones into a
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media PC I don't know either way I love it
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because it has a headphone app okay it's
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got Dolby headphone for realistic 5.1 surround so has virtual round it's also
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got gx2.5 which gx2.5 allows up to 128
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simultaneous effects for a realistic 3D experience and if you don't have it then
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you game with 3D video but only lame bulky
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audio all right moving right along what else we got Jack sensing
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front panels that's handy so even if you accidentally plug them into the wrong thing in the dark then you know um that
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won't cause a problem although I don't recommend usually plugging things into
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the wrong thing in the dark because that can cause problems we've also got output
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signal ratio of 105 DB for 5.1 Channel
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okay input okay so there's a bunch of specs and whatnot it's a PCI sound card
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uses a c media chipset okay cool let's have a look at
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the sound card itself so it comes with drivers ignore those download the latest it comes with two quick start
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guides amazing uh
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why English not English okay hold on
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this this must be a packaging error there's no way oh no look at this
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they're both no way they're both English
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but they both have a bunch of other different
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languages um I guess this was better
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than doing one thick book somehow uh okay low profile bracket
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extra screws and let's have a look at the sound card itself so you find the
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usual assortment of colorcoded jacks that are compatible with 5.1 out as well
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as a microphone in you've also got an optical audio out so you can use that if
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you're outputting to digital uh receiver
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or digital speakers or whatever the case may be there's your cdia chipset right
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there there's your PCI interface there's
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your front panel audio as well as your auxiliary in and spit if out and that's
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pretty much it I mean it's straightforward the whole point is its
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good value it's got an apt headphone output and that's pretty much all I need
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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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