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| Based on 5 expert reviews, the average rating for ASUS Xonar D2 / PCI is 4.2/5. Expert Reviews for Sound Cards are gathered from magazines and web sites around the world. Read summaries of the English reviews below. |
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Title: Review summary of Asus Xonar D2(12/2/08)Summary: Read the full review Verdict: Experts rate this product 78/100 and users 97/100. Comparing these reviews to 4378 other Sound Cards reviews gives this product an overall alaScore™ 99/100 = Excellent. Country: 
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| maximumpc.com - review |
Title: Asus Xonar D2(3/5/08)Summary: Who¿d have thunk it? Long considered a dead zone, soundcards are making a resurgence. Driven by an outcry for audio that doesn¿t sound like a box of snap, crackle, pop every time you access your USB ports, manufacturers are releasing new soundcards that surpass the free audio that comes with your motherboard. This month, we test an... Read the full review Pros: ; Cool LED color-coded ports. Cons: ; Only EAX 2.0 support. Country:
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8.0 / 10.0 |
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Title: ASUS Xonar D2 / PCI(8/30/07)Summary: 1 expert has reviewed the ASUS Xonar D2 / PCI, giving it an average score of 80 out of 100... Read the full review Country: 
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80.0 / 100.0 |
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Title: Asus Xonar D2X(6/23/70)Summary: Asus Xonar D2X... Read the full review Pros: ; Superb sound quality, Dolby and DTS encoding, sumptuous bundle. Cons: ; No hardware processing, does not support higher than EAX 2.0, needs floppy power connector, hard to install on some motherboards. Country:
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4.0 / 5.0 |
| custompc.co.uk |
Title: Asus Xonar D2Summary: For the audiophile, Asus's Xonar D2 has the edge over Creative's X-Fi. However, its effectiveness for games revolves primarily around whether Dolby Digital and DTS Connect become common standards. At the moment, even though ALchemy is very much a work in progress, it hands the advantage to Creative with the current game generation,... Read the full review Verdict: The market for discrete sound cards was looking terminal a few years ago, but Creative's X-Fi series, with EAX 5 and a 24-bit Crystalizer enhancement system for poor-quality audio sources, revived people's interest. Asus now fancies a bite at the dedicated audio market with the Xonar D2. It's priced higher than Creative's £118 X-Fi Country:
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80.0 / 100.0 |
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