upgrading Xonar Phoebus to Essence STX?
Mar 17, 2013 at 2:51 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 2

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hello,
few week ago I bought Xonar Rog Phoebus but currently there are lots of driver/software issues with Phoebus and I wasn't impressed with it's software too .. looks like Asus not interested in releasing any stable drivers for Phoebus at the moment ..
I 'm thinking about selling my Phoebus and moving in to STX.. so at least I can use uni-xonar drivers without depending on asus...
is it worth selling my Phoebus and getting a STX ?
 
Mar 19, 2013 at 10:04 AM Post #2 of 2
TBH I am sick of sound cards and their manufacturers period.  Drivers are so poor all around~  One of the things I hate about the phoebus is there is no visual representation that surround sound is functioning properly for headphone output with DDHTv4.
 
I would just get a sound card with DDL output and something like the mixamp for gaming.  Or check out the auzentech line of sound cards, their drivers are  fairly good!  The asus unidrivers don't support full function.
 
For music output an external dac which doesn't rely on drivers.
 

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