Review and Measurements of Asus Xonar U7 MKII ADC/DAC/HP

[Bogda]

Does this card support any true multichannel home theater standard or is it limited to extracting quasi-multichannel from stereo with Dolby Home Theater v4?

 

[ernestcarl]

Does this card support any true multichannel home theater standard or is it limited to extracting quasi-multichannel from stereo with Dolby Home Theater v4?

Don't remember as I don't use the software that comes with it. But many media players like JRiver and Media Player Classic can do the decoding to PCM and upmixing/downmixing anyway. The Asus software by itself is quite useless because it can't perform proper multi-channel (bass management) DSP system integration. I do all the DSP (time delay, xo EQ and other convolution stuff) in JRiver (purchased). You can probably do the same or get similar results with other free options like Equalizer APO. Or maybe use an external AVR via the PC to HDMI if you have one around.

 

[Palladium]

Any standalone desktop DAC that can't put out 2V RMS at line out is inexcusable in 2020s, regardless of price.

 

[MCH]

Any standalone desktop DAC that can't put out 2V RMS at line out is inexcusable in 2020s, regardless of price.

This cannot operate standalone to the best of my knowledge.

 

[x7007]

Hi, is the U7 MKII can still do the Headphones Virtual Surround through SPDIF to a Z8 Ever Solo DAC/AMP for example? 24bit 48Hz properly?

 

[superdeath1978]

Salve, l'U7 MKII può ancora eseguire il Surround virtuale delle cuffie tramite SPDIF su un DAC/AMP Z8 Ever Solo, ad esempio? 24bit 48Hz correttamente?

Salve non ho mai provato

 

[x7007]

Salve non ho mai provato

I tested it, it works, but there is something missing when using optical, I can't change to Full-Range Speakers which nerf the quality, and usually it's not selected on default and I don't know if it is.

 

[superdeath1978]

I tested it, it works, but there is something missing when using optical, I can't change to Full-Range Speakers which nerf the quality, and usually it's not selected on default and I don't know if it is.

ok I had never tried to use it, but let me understand so you are using it as a USB to Optical DAC right?

 

[LeonardMotleyaaan]

It seems to work fine with Linux under Alsa (I disable Pulseaudio), but there is one tweak you need to do to fix a 'Broken Pipe' error. That's Linux for you.

192.168.100.1 192.168.1.1​

 

[marcheloka]

Hello @amirm I have found that information in the manual:

Maybe hitting the switch would solve the problem with truncation above 16/48?