Okay, sounds excellent.  Did you notice that the quality of the Blu Ray was sub par when playing through PowerDVD?  I tried the PowerDVD 13 Ultra Demo and my video quality was worse than a ripped copy of my personal blu ray movie.

Quote: thank you!

Hello Forum,   I noticed that there does not seem to be a dedicated thread to Blu Ray audio through the Xonar STX, so here it goes!   Just got ordered a blu ray drive for my pc and am excited to start watching HD audio/video movies on my pc.  The real kicker is that I do not completely...

Hi everyone,   I just decided to purchase a blu ray drive for my pc so that I could start watching movies using my favorite cans and xonar essence stx.  I really want to watch 1080p movies with 5.1 support through my dolby headphone setup.  Are blu ray disks DTS or dolby or are both...

Quote:     Quote: output yes, but I unfortunately need input :(

Quote: this is brilliant, thank you.  If I get the TBS DSS, is there a way to still get the microphone function to work? Or would that have to be sacrificed, perhaps substituted with a usb mic? Or re-enabling onboard audio and plugging a mic into that perhaps

Quote: Ahh very good point, this may pose a problem.  I have an Onkyo receiver, do not know the model and it is not accessible right now as I had to leave it with family when moving into a new flat due to space issues.  What I do know is that previous attempts of xbox -> receiver -> cans...

Quote: Absolutely true, the only problem is that I am trying to avoid the use of my receiver altogether as I want to utilize the dolby headphone option of my STX.  I guess that rules out the optical method, then.  Fortunately, there are various adapters made for the xbox that may allow this...

Since making my new gaming computer, I have been swayed into pc gaming favoritism over console gaming; however, I still want to play certain xbox 360 titles like Halo 4 when it comes out.  After some research and thought, I realized that I could indeed get the best of both worlds: xbox 360...

latest update:   found out the program that was doing it.  It's called EasyTune6, something that came with my motherboard and is used for overclocking, thermostat, fan control, etc.  It was set to monitor my temperature every 3 seconds which is what was creating all the annoying, yet...

Quote: sounds, good.  it looks like all my drivers are up to date as far as I can tell.  Yes, my motherboard did come with software, all of which I installed, and seemingly is up to date...will look further into it, however.

for comparison the pictures above are when I was listening to music on foobar and browsing the web, etc   the ones below are in idle mode  

Quote: right?!  The scary part is I have no clue as to pinpointing the problem 

update: ive encountered the audio drops again :( not sure why or where they came from so I started the latency checker and it showed some disappointing results (pictured).  I then tried going into device manager to disable various devices but to avail       

big thank you to PurpleAngel and elwappo for the very helpful links and advice, I am currently testing everything to see if there are any more audio drops...so far so good.  I installed the latest Unified Xonar Drivers as well as updated bios after testing my latency and now it seems to be much...

Quote: yes I disabled the on-board audio in bios, and now I will try the chip set drivers as well as finding the Unified Xonar Drivers.  On the link you provided, will I also need the other two downloads for RAID and RAIDXPERT? Thanks!

Quote: okay will try this right now, thank you for the quick help! will update how it goes

Hi guys,   I recently finished my audiophile/gaming pc build: 1000W Power Supply: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00596U0YQ/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00 Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OV789U/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00 4xCorsair Vengeance 4GB...

Hello all,   I am having fun with the STX and VLC combo for music playback.  I enjoy using Xonar Audio Center to mess with effects and select from Dolby Headphone or HF mode, etc.   I just installed Foobar to give it a shot and the first thing I realized is that it seems to bypass all...

Quote: just awesome xD.  currently playing lvl 14 zero for the amazing damage for sniping, but will make the mechro asap.

Quote: brilliant :) what sort of refurbishing?

Quote: Okay, no worries though since the K701 plugs in directly via the 1/4" jack.  The only thing I would imagine possibly connecting through the RCA would be some sort of external speaker set up which would then just use the Virtual Speaker.  Would you recommend a certain way of...

Not sure if you have already or not, but ebay still has some STX on sale

will be ordering the STX soon and will give it some testing time to see if I have the same problem and let you know

Just ordered the AKG K701 and will be getting the Asus Xonar Essence STX to drive it without having to get extra intermediary equipment that has to sit outside my pc tower.  Did some asking around and apparently the STX amp and the amp used in the FIIOS E9K are the same, meaning you are...