Guys, the Asus Xonar series cards have better DACs and OpAmps than most of the popular receivers out there. The new Xonar with the daughter board even adds *replaceable* OpAmps, like the old X-Meridian had. This'll allow you to install LM4562's for each channel. This is awesome for an HTPC...a few extra analog cabes is better than having to spend a few grand and take up space with a receiver.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Guys, the Asus Xonar series cards have better DACs and OpAmps than most of the popular receivers out there. The new Xonar with the daughter board even adds *replaceable* OpAmps, like the old X-Meridian had. This'll allow you to install LM4562's for each channel. This is awesome for an HTPC...a few extra analog cabes is better than having to spend a few grand and take up space with a receiver.