Testseek.com have collected 23 expert reviews of the Asus Xonar Essence STX and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Asus Xonar Essence STX.
March 2009
Experts 91% 23 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users 100% 1 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
The editors liked
Remarkably clear and crisp audio
terrific headphone support
almost too good for low-to-midrange bitrate MP3 listening!
Superb audio quality
dedicated headphone amplifier
swappable op-amps
Direct3D
EAX emulation for XP
Vista games
Fantastic Analogue Sound
Great Feature set
Very powerful Headphone AMP
Excellent Sound Clarity
Great Movie Experience
Excellent Dolby headphone Onboard
and
Clean and pure sound output and control over headphone impedance.
Made with high quality components
Exceptional sound playback
Stable
intuitive driver
Compatible with Windows 7
The editors didn't like
Limited support for multichannel speaker systems
Analog output is stereo-only
Lack of DTS support?
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Made with high quality components, Exceptional sound playback, Stable, intuitive driver, Compatible with Windows 7
Expensive
Asus' Xonar Essence STX may be pricey, but for audiophiles or those with the money to spend on an excellent sound card, this is the one to get. It looks good and performs even better. It's made with high quality components throughout, right down to t...
When you get down to their core feature sets, the Xonar Essence STX and X-Fi Forte really are quite similar. Both fake EAX effects in Vista, both support 24-bit audio up to 192kHz, both offer a measure of headphone amplification, both sound fantastic, ...
When I had been listening to the Auzen X-Fi Prelude, I had not expected any card to surpass it. Later on, the ASUS Xonar D2 showed the weak aspects of the Prelude. And now, the Xonar Essence STX sounds better than the Xonar D2 and Prelude, and better t...
We should also mention other aspects of ASUS Xonar Essence STX as much as those are secondary in this case. If you want to watch movies with surround speakers this card won’t disappoint you because there is S/PDIF output for optical or coaxial cable...
list, and also the well-deserved Editors Choice award. We apologize for this oversight, Discuss this article in our forums!, Have a comment you wish to make on this article? Recommendations? Criticism? Feel free to head over to our related thread and put...
Without a doubt, ASUS has taken a broad and varied approach to the audio card market. What started with the Xonar D2, a solid all-around contender to take the performance crown away from Creative, has morphed into one of the most well-rounded audio pro...
The Asus Xonar Essence STX is marketed as an Audiophiles sound card. That being said, we could do without some of the non-essential bells and whistles. An audiophile will never be satisfied with the stock EQ presets and there are plenty. The rotating...
One thing that annoys me most about PC audio is just how noisy and dirty sounding it is, especially with good headphones. The most startling thing about the ASUS Xonar Essence STX Headphone Amp Card was just how dark the background was. There was abs...
Fantastic Analogue Sound, Great Feature set, Very powerful Headphone AMP, Excellent Sound Clarity, Great Movie Experience, Excellent Dolby headphone Onboard
Lack of DTS support?
The sound quality of the Xonar Essence STX far surpasses any commercially available and viable sound card in its price category. Barring sound cards costing £200 upwards, the Asus Xonar really is musically the best card you can get at the moment.At fa...
Abstract: When we came to the climax of our review of Auzentechs new X-Fi Forte a couple of weeks ago, we labelled it as our new "king of the hill" as far as discrete audio solutions go. Indeed, it was almost a minor miracle in the way it squeezed so much fun...
