Is this the most boring sound card ever made? 

Thank you! I would love to get my hands on the Auzentech and the Onkyo! Auzentech is my secret love and Onkyo used to make excellent cards.

Hi Afakkob Yab! Thank you for your comment! Ahhh yes the Voodoo with passtrough cable! I used to own one myself! But it somehow got lost during a move from house to house. Sadly! I still have a Soundblaster 2 ISA in the box! Would that satify your hunger for DS sound?

@@AntonsHardware :D ISA SB2 was the best indeed, yes :D thanks a lot for reply Anton! nowadays I play a game called "hunt: showdown" to remind the good old sounds from golden era, recommend it strongly. Take care

Yes, the better opamps are always for the front channels. The rest get whatever is cheapest. I've been looking for those Onkyo's for ages, but their are very, very hard to find here in europe.

I absolutly agree! For gamers it's better to not have a lot of bass. I normally mention this in my video's. But there are also a lot of people who use it in an HTPC setup or just listen music. So I want them to also know that the bass is missing.

Than this may be the card for you!

@@AntonsHardware Already bought one, but a package thief needed it more apparently.

So, "web update" and "unable to detect"... did these bastards set this shit up to fade into obscurity once they decide it's end-of-life? Do I really need to search sourceforge or similar for a driver that isn't retarded?

I got it working. Had to extract downloaded driver and manually find registry file.

Thank you Jim!

Mikele! I'm still working on a video about that, but it takes a lot of time to create that video. I'm not an expert, but just a guy who knows a thing or 2 about sound. So I want to be sure that what I say actually is true. :D My estimate is that it will come in about 3 or 4 weeks.

Ik heb een video gemaakt waarin ik uitzoek of een geluidskaart uitmaakt of niet voor FPS. Misschien interessant voor jou? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aFy9jZzDSnY.htmlsi=QuLTkts7-SpzMeqe

@@AntonsHardware bedankt voor bericht. gebruik zelf meer voor muziek zoals live sets hardstyle jaren 2000 en hardcore en trance. hou van zuiver en goede goede bass net of je zelf op zo feest bent en gebruik nu ook de creative fatality hs 1000 usb koptelefoon maar ja die heeft een eigen usb geluids kaart na fimware update en zo een goede koptelefoon helemaal nog kunnen krijgen uit oosten rijk soort markt plaats Had eerst gewoon fality maar die was kapot gegaan helaas hebt ze nog wel maar zonder die fatality ontzewtten goede bass in ben echt wel een audio punctioneel op zich

I agree! Also Creative was the company that got the most support from game developers under MS DOS. If that was deserved is to be debated. After that they used the name for years to come and used it to create over hyped products. They still have an enormous amount of arrogance and think they are still sound card king. But they aren't anymore. People want plug and play audio and not fiddle around with drivers. Except for those nerds like me, who do like that. And that is where USB comes in and better manufactures.

​@@AntonsHardware hi. Can u recommend a good but mega budget external solution with spidif before I buy this boring card on ebay for 20 quid. ;)

I usually use the Creative G6, but I may vary. The EVGA Nu is a very good card to use! Please keep in mind that in order to get the best results, you have to do a weighted test. You will need a splitter cable for that. One end is attached to the line in of the EVGA and the other to a headset. That way the sound card has to do something and will results in real world results.

Wow... ehh... You mean the Crossover frequency? Or just if they have the functionality? I don't know a lot of sound cards that have that. I haven't seen that in a while. If I'm correct, the older Cmedia based cards by asus have that.

@@AntonsHardware if u go to ur sound blaster Z video at minute mark 4:32 u will see at the bottom of the menu the "bass management" u must toggle the "bass Redirection" for ur subwoofer output to play bass audio with non-LFE and/or stereo content like in ur browser on youtube the crossover slider is just a bonus with the new driver interface u can find it in playback/the gog icon next to "speaker calibration" and u must select "custom speakers" i think u must but definitely must to enable the crossover slider then u have to toggle ur front speakers as a non-full range speaker my onboard audio (alc4080 - realtek audio control) u just set the config to 5.1 surround and toggle either ur front or surround speakers to non-full range speakers then bass will be redirected to the subwoofer output but does not have a crossover i recently got a sound blaster Z and using the newest interface

Back in the days, the Realtek ALC codecs, were horrible. But the last couple of years, they've become better and better! I'm not sure about the 4080. I haven't come across them yet.

oh BTW iam using it on windows xp and its EAX 3.0 compared to the VIA HD 2.0 onboard

That may explain a lot! Getting this card working in Win 11 is a lot of work! Cool mobo by the way! I still have that one too somewhere! With the excellent nvidia chipsets!

I don't test for 5.1 compatibilty or that. Just headphones and 2.0 speakers! But what I do know about cards is that I love the AE-5! One of the better cards out there. The other two are also good, with the Xonar AE being my secret love.

Hi Luis! No, I have never heard of that brand! But after looking it up online, I will definitly take a look at it! Best internal card would be the AE9. Used to be the EVGA NU, but that isn't being sold anymore. (sadly!)

Hi Piecaruso97, Good to meet a fellow collector! Cool that you have worked on open source drivers! Dit you also work on Linux drivers? Especially for the Creative cards, they are notoriously hard to get working on Linux.

@@AntonsHardware Hi i have mostly worked on OS X and modern macOS drivers, but i have also contributed to the kx audio driver which is also a windows driver (essentially it's a driver that can be compiled for windows or mac) and probably you have used it with the audigy 2, in the review video. i have noticed that, in one of the system settings windows, for the card properties it uses a name tag for the card that i have created for the kx audio driver. Mostly i like to get stuff to work on my old macs and my hackintosh machines, and to have them work better than they used to. I am now working at a new version of the kx audio driver for mac that adds support for multiple sound cards at the same time, for now i have tested it with 4 sound cards at the same time, but i am trying to all the way to 6, in theory it should work up to 16 sound cards at the same time. I have also just got a prodigy 7.1 hifi for my collection and i am working on adding support for it to the envy24ht mac driver, i have discovered that there are 2 different versions of the cards with different subvendor ids, so i had to add support for mine into the driver (i have also improved compatibility with 64 bit oses for the driver since it had a lot of assumptions made for 32 bit code, but that breaks for 64bits). For the prodigy card itself i don't have noticed none of the bad things you highlighted in the review, this leads me to suspect that you got a faulty card, perhaps some of the old capacitors are failing on yours.

Но что такое хорошая звуковая карта? :D