Dibster
Head-Fier
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I realize discussions of soundcards should usually be in another area, but seeing as I am speaking specifically about it's headphone amplifier relative to other full-size amplifiers I felt this was the correct area.
The Xonar cards are often getting trashed here on the forums as not being anywhere near capable of driving hifi headphones like the HD800 I own. From what I've understood the 10ohm output impedance is well within 1/8th of the HD800's 300ohm impedance so that shouldn't be a factor for frequency response. The amp is rated to 7.03V which, according to an online calculator, is high enough to run my HD800's up to ~124db SPL.
So as per thread title, what exactly is the technical shortcoming of the STX that more expensive full-sized amplifiers would do better?