AuzenTech HDA X Plosion 7.1 Sound Card Review

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.

..You either love or hate Creative which is where AuzenTech have seen the gap in the market. Unfortunately, their product doesn’t have any of the features that Creative have nearly made standard with EAX, and doesn’t obviously support the free protocol of OpenAL. For the gaming market, I doubt this card will take hold.

However, if you have a home cinema setup and want to have Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive single-cable output, this card will mark highly on your list. No to gamers, yes to media PC’s.

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