I know, but sadly I have no experience with any of them so I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing :)

have any idea how's the Essence ONE compared to the Audio-GD DAC? I tried looking on the forums but there's no comparison.   Thanks

Hey guys,   I'm on a quest to replace my internal sound card with a high-quality'ish USB DAC and after doing some research, I decided to buy either the Essence ONE or the Essence STU. As I've read, from an audiphile point of view, the 2 cards are similar in sound (having the same chipset and...

ya true but I'd choose an independent DAC rather than this solution :)   thanks for the suggestion

  I have a bit of a memory leak to tell you the Mackie model atm but ya, they are the studio amped ones. I've disabled the on-board sound so that's not the issue. The X-FI is picking up static from the video cards 100%. How's the SQ on the Audio-GD? Basically I want to remove the X-Fi entirely...

Thanks for the reply, I want to use it as a general purpose card..music, gaming and media. However, I'm not interested in positional audio in games, I have some nice USB head-phones for that :)

Hey guys, I have a bit of a dillema and I have to fix it. I've recently assembled a new computer, i won't bother you with the specs, but it has 2 SLI video cards (780 Ti). I have an internal soundcard, a X-FI Titanium HD which served me flawlessly for some years now. In my book, this is the best...

the saffire stops working

there's no need to test, i've tried with 2 USB headsets (both with their own processor) and both work flawlessly.

Wndows 7 x64 is the OS and no, even as default device, I cannot select other USB audio devices to play. If the Saffire is on, even if I choose as the alternate source the USB headset for example, it gives an error. THAT HAPPENS ONLY WHEN THE SAFFIRE IS INSTALLED. If I install any firewire audio...

Hello,   I own a Focusrite Saffire 6 USB device for a time now but recently I have purchased a set of Razer Megalodons (USB) for gaming. The main purpose of this is to listen to music via SAffire to my speakers and with my headphones the ventrio client. (i had this setup before but with an...