[urbanhusky]

The drivers are quite bad (seems the same with every ASUS soundcard). The dropouts from ASIO are most likely a driver issue.
The channel imbalance and sometimes complete drop-out of the entire midrange in a song (until I power cycle the unit) are what caused me to return the unit and get something completely different instead. Now I'm not looking back.
 

 

[DMarasovic]

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The drivers are quite bad (seems the same with every ASUS soundcard). The dropouts from ASIO are most likely a driver issue.
The channel imbalance and sometimes complete drop-out of the entire midrange in a song (until I power cycle the unit) are what caused me to return the unit and get something completely different instead. Now I'm not looking back.
 

Never had such a problem with E1 neither from Foobar nor JRiver MC18 that I'm using now.

 

[urbanhusky]

Who knows, maybe the drivers are better now - I got mine back when people used to brick it with the firmware update that they later pulled. Still, I tested 3 units and I absolutely loathe the Xonar Essence One as a result of my experience with it.
 

 

[cssarrow]

I also use both foobar and J.River 18 and found no ASIO issues.

Are you by any chance running Windows 8?
Even though there's drivers for them, there might still be an issue.

 

[turokrocks]

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The drivers are quite bad (seems the same with every ASUS soundcard). The dropouts from ASIO are most likely a driver issue.
The channel imbalance and sometimes complete drop-out of the entire midrange in a song (until I power cycle the unit) are what caused me to return the unit and get something completely different instead. Now I'm not looking back.
 

I even use cplay which is one of the most "picky" players but best sounding, and it worked smooth , all what I have to do is to change the Asio setting in the Asio control panel to 32.
 
I have my Asus Muses running on 3 different PCs , XP (cplay), windows 7 (foobar), Windows 8 (Jriver), and did not have a single error or problem.

 

[ROBSCIX]

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The drivers are quite bad (seems the same with every ASUS soundcard). The dropouts from ASIO are most likely a driver issue.
The channel imbalance and sometimes complete drop-out of the entire midrange in a song (until I power cycle the unit) are what caused me to return the unit and get something completely different instead. Now I'm not looking back.
 

I never had any issues with the E1 or other ASUS products I have tested (which is many).  Every system is different, so perhaps it is something else in your rig causing issues with the audio subsystem?

 

[midnightfox]

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I also use both foobar and J.River 18 and found no ASIO issues.

Are you by any chance running Windows 8?
Even though there's drivers for them, there might still be an issue.

 
 
I've been using Win 8 for a little while now with no ASIO issues. 

 

[cssarrow]

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I've been using Win 8 for a little while now with no ASIO issues. 

Yeah, I have Win 8 on another PC and experience no issues as well.
 
I believe it depends from PC to PC as some people sometimes install wrong drivers that corrupts required files, or even, have lack of drivers.

 

[Gandah]

Try a another USB 2.0 port. I had this problem for along time, I'm not sure if it was the USB or just burn-in time that fixed it, It works fine now

 

[mwindham08]

Anyone have any impressions of the Schiit Mjolnir with the Essence One? Do they have good synergy together?

 

[OICWUTUDIDTHAR]

I noticed the skipping doesn't occur when I stop the song (by hitting the square) and then switching to a different song. If I don't stop the song before switching to another the skipping occurs, only happens on ASIO though. Anyone else experience the same?
 
Also,  am I all up to date on firmware and drivers?
 
Essence One Driver Version 7.0.11.5
Essence One F/W Version 1.27
Audio Chip F/W Version 0111

 

[Archimago]

Driver is up to 8.0.11.6 I believe.

 

[OICWUTUDIDTHAR]

That is the windows 8 driver not the windows 7 one I believe.

 

[ASUSXONAR]

Might be worth writing up your system config and a parts list. Doesn't seem this is a common problem. What configuration changes if any have you made to Foobar? Is this install of Windows 7 fresh, or do you have lots of background services and apps running?
 
-Raja

 

[TCM]

Where can I find an instruction how to update the firmware. I can't seem to find it