Fosi K7 Gaming DAC and HP Amp Review

[Libette]

I think out of the Soundblaster products that Amir has measured then the SoundblasterX G6 is the best one, because you have to be sure it can appear as a real 7.1 device to the OS, and Amir once measured the Soundblaster X5 and that only appears as a stereo device to the OS so it's impossible that it can do Virtual Surround at all. So if you want to use an Amir measured device then the SoundblasterX G6 would be the one to get. I don't think he's measured anymore Soundblaster products but I might be wrong, but whatever you do make sure it can appear as a real 7.1 device to the OS.

Perhaps Soundblaster Ae-9 would be good contender.

 

[Libette]

Is there any other EQ capability besides the "bass, treble, etc." mentioned in the review? I ask because even the bargain-priced SK01 has a midrange knob, which I occasionally find very handy.

No its not.

 

[KurtKlötentreter]

I've been waiting for my K7 to arrive since monday, holiday season is really taking it's toll on parcel delivery right now. I wish I had done a little more research on this, I was looking for this to replace my old SoundblasterX G6 along with the SMSL D1 I recently picked up.
I just read that the microphone input is only active in UAC 1 mode, which has left me asking myself why that is the case. It does occasionally happen that I listen to music on my speakers while having my headset connected, so I would have preferred not to have my sample rate locked to 48khz while having the mic input active.

 

[Robbo99999]

Perhaps Soundblaster Ae-9 would be good contender.

Amir's not measured it though so you can be less sure how it will perform. I don't think it really offers anything that the G6 doesn't, and in fact on one of the spec pages it only mentions stereo & Virtual 5.1 surround and doesn't mention Virtual 7.1 Surround, but maybe that's a "typo" on their part as I can't imagine it would only do 5.1 - still it's not the best argument to buy it when it looks like there's some doubt whether it can do 7.1.