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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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"Auzentech audio cards have been favourites among the XSR team for a good few years now not only for their great sound quality and effects but also for the broad appeal to gamers, audiophiles and home theatre lovers alike.
Auzentech cards are built around PCI Express based Creative X-Fi chips with a wealth of features enabling the sound card to be so widely appealing: EAX 5.0 for the gamers, DTS Interactive for movies and music and of course a dedicated, independent headphone circuit designed for professional grade headphones.
To give it its full name, the Auzentech X-Fi Bravura 7.1 arrived promising the same great Auzentech quality with a few added extras. So what exactly does the Bravura have in its locker? A close inspection will reveal all..."
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Monday, February 23, 2009
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The combination of Creative chip and Auzentech PCB magic was been a success before with the likes of the X-Fi Prelude 7.1. That card fitted a normal PCI slot but today we have its successor which slots into the PCI-e instead. I give you the Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1; can this card carry on the success of its predecessor and even go further in terms of sound quality and performance? Time to find out.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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From a technical point of view we understand that Auzentech has fully licensed Creative Labs' X-Fi chip onto their own proprietary circuit board design. So what does that mean? Well it means arguably the world's fastest and most advanced audio processing at the average consumers reach right now, with upcoming driver support for Dolby Live, DTS interactive and since we have a Creative chip, the very latest in EAX surround technology. My first impressions were good with a very noticeable notch up from the low-end after swapping from the Xonar. Not only did the low-end sound a lot beefier, it had a lot more character to it; more warmth and depth.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Utilizing Creative's X-Fi technology for its latest soundcard is Auzen's X-Fi Prelude 7.1, but will it beat Creative at its own game?
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Friday, February 8, 2008
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Sound cards. From the world of Creative dominating nearly the entire sound card market, to today's relatively adequate integrated audio, all the way to competition to who can make the best discrete audiophile sound card, the choice consumer has for computer audio is better than ever before. I've always been a big fan of Creative hardware for excellent performance and flexibility to push the potential of low end to high end computer audio. However, there always seem to be some limitations in place -- whether it's software issues, or other onboard hardware used in conjunction with the audio processor -- it really limited their popularity to a few certain users only. Lately, two high end sound cards gained a lot of press. One is the Asus Xonar D2 which we've already reviewed back in October 2007. It's excellent with the DACs and OPAmps used, but I personally felt a bit of limitations with its scalability and processing power. The second is the Auzentech X-Fi Prelude. Now this is one interesting product. Being the first third-party manufacturer to license Creative's excellent X-Fi audio processor, the X-Fi Prelude is a combination of a favorite audio processor amongst many, with pretty much all the benefits of a high end board such as the Xonar D2 as aforementioned. Is this really the ultimate consumer sound card money can buy? Let's take a close look and see how it goes.
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Monday, December 17, 2007
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They first popped up late 2005 with their X-Mystique 7.1 sound card. They knew well enough they couldn't beat Creative at its own game when it came to gaming. So, just like Audiotrak and Onkyo, they concentrated on audiophiles and audio enthusiasts, delivering sound cards with board layouts that focus on analog quality, swappable operational amplifiers, better DACs and a slew of other features.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
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CPU's and graphics cards are always prime candidates for discussion when building an enthusiast system. Rarely does anyone give soundcards a thought, even though aural pleasure should be as much a requirement as the ultimate eye candy. In the last few years things have been pretty stale with Creative having a clear lead due to their Soundblaster Live! and Audigy cards. It was only recently that things got interesting again, with Creatives new X-Fi line bringing new cards to the table, as well as several other companies proprietary solutions. Today well be looking at Auzens take on an X-Fi soundcard and a 7.1 channel soundcard from ASUS which places special emphasis on Dolby and DTS support.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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The Auzentech Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 revealed itself as an excellent card. It offers flexibility about connections, a very good technical realization, first quality components and high audio quality. With a price around 180? the Prelude is a very interesting product, that offers a very high quality in almost every usage, with better performances than other products, with similar price and even most expansive.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
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Finally! We are beginning to see Creative's chipset offerings being used in other manufacturers sound cards. The first such product is Auzentech's X-Fi Prelude, which we have on the test bench today. Though it excels in some regards, we find out that it has a lot of room for improvement.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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So you want a gaming sound card? Creative it is then. Ah, see that's where you are wrong. Creative have recently released their X-Fi chip to Auzentech who have worked their PCB trickery into producing a card with the good aspects of the X-Fi with the window open to use Dolby Digital Live, DTS Interactive, and DTS NeoPC in the future. Considering as this was one of the major complaints with the X-Fi itself, this card could be a serious contender to the Creative crown?
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
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Whether you love or hate them, Creative has become the most well-known PC audio add-in card supplier. While their X-Fi range of cards pleased many gamers, the lack of Vista drivers caused an equal quantity of miffed customers. Auzentech are now out to prove there are alternatives out there, and they are even releasing an X-Fi chip card soon. Today however I have their HDA X plosion 7.1 DTS Connect card. The X-Fi killer? Find out below?
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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We all know them, our one friend who is completely obsessed with their PC's audio performance. They generally spend hundreds on the top of the line sound cards, the best studio quality head phones, and a completely absurd amount on 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound audio systems. As computer graphics get more and more realistic the quality of the computer's sound must improve now and many of us have seen that onboard audio simply cannot deliver without a massive cost of PC performance. Auzentech has recently released the X-Meridian 7.1 which is capable of delivering audio that will make your audiophile friend start drooling.
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