2012-02-09, 17:48
DDDamian Wrote:I was breaking it to him gently The "official" Xonar HDA thread at AVScience is 313 pages and it's not pretty. It's a great card if you need analog out on multiple channels, but has been essntially replaced for $35 with a pure digital path via HDMI with the AMD cards Bluray refers to.
Exactly, its a nice piece of card but Xonar's path of using ASIO complicates the issue. In my case I have a large mix of stereo and 5.1 audios. When I was using the Xonar I have to go to their control application every time and choose the channel mix to get the best performance.
I chose Xonar in the first place because of AMD was not allowing more than 2 channels thru HDMI until late 2011.