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[Jean Charbonneau]

I would like recommendations of a PC sound card to play flac 24 bit - 96/192 KHZ music.
According to the specs the Sound blaster ZXR can do it.
I wonder also about the Asus Essence STXII.
Has anybody tried any of them or others cards that can he can recommend?

[jctcom]

What are you trying to play the music to?  Amp / Receiver, Computer speakers etc???

I had tried the Asus Zonar but had too many issues.  In the end I went with an upper end Video card with HDMI and output that to my Receiver.

Works great that way.

Carl.

[Manfred]

I have Asus STX II with my Devialet D-200. Because Devialet AIR was not working for me over a long time I tried 3 different solutions:

1. Using Optical SPDIF with Realtek 1150 on the mainboard
2. Using Sotm USB card (no external PSU)
3. Asus STX II

From my experience I liked the sound of the STX II most, it had more body than 1. and 2 and sounds smoother, more relaxed. I have used the soundcard for almost a year. I have used the ASIO drivers - sounds best. No problems so far. The GUI of the software is not state of the art, but works.

So yes - I could recommend it.
( In the mean time, Devialet has deployed AIR3-ß, which works now, so I don't use STX II anymore on my HTPC and it is gone into my PC)

[forbigd]

I also tried the xonar and really liked it. It had a volume normalizer, but it lacked the ability to play some formats, so I went the hdmi route too. You don't even need to use the video card for video, and you can buy a really cheap HDMI card (sub 40 bucks) that does all the way up to Atmos. MC really likes to use HDMI sound. It never complains it can't play a file. (Almost)

Don