WiR3D
We intend to hurt him...quite a bit.
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Most probably, from my experience with the STX, it measures well, but its coloured, especially out of the headphone port, and IMHO the stock opamps are nasty, the JRC2114D just mess up things and the LM4562 (may have mixed up a digit there) is horrible, it has issues, but then again I'm very picky, and small issues annoy the crap out of me.
There's no doubt in my mind that the ODAC is really good. If I would buy it I would supply it with a Corsair AX650 (and a recent Z77 Gigabyte mobo) and I think that's a pretty good PSU.
But when comparing the ODAC and the Asus card I'm mostly interested in the measurements and from what I've seen they are quite similar in that department and should both be transparent. My real question is, do you think you could tell them apart in a blind test?
Most probably, from my experience with the STX, it measures well, but its coloured, especially out of the headphone port, and IMHO the stock opamps are nasty, the JRC2114D just mess up things and the LM4562 (may have mixed up a digit there) is horrible, it has issues, but then again I'm very picky, and small issues annoy the crap out of me.