EVGA introduces its Nu Audio Pro sound cards

[theleader]

Don't worry! Win 10 will sooner or later kill it! Drivers installed, but no sound as seems to has occurred with my sound cards on different machines! What about Midi or the Game port?

[Kato-2]

No HDMI output, could have at least added that for the money your spending.

[ohmaheid]

why...just why.

I know. Believe it or not...There are still people who buy speaker systems costing many hundreds to listen to stripped-out MP3 files.

[Dashers]

I'm not sure unnecessary lighting and the potential for EM interference is really something that should be added to a sound-card geared towards a market that wants better quality audio than on-board.

[Zak33]

I bought an Asus Xonar years ago when my onboard sound stopped working. I've upgraded motherboards several times since then, each time I get a new board I listen to the onboard sound to see if it sounds better than the card. So far, every time, to my ears the soundcard has won. (That is with analogue outputs and music though, probably the ideal case for it)

agreed. I did the same with my sound cards, over many years and I'm just about ready for a new one now.

[Zak33]

I'm not sure unnecessary lighting and the potential for EM interference is really something that should be added to a sound-card geared towards a market that wants better quality audio than on-board.

100%....but the market "demands" it... so we need to ride this roller coaster back down into the non illuminated world again over time

[jnutt]

I've always used a creative sound card over on-board hardware. I have tried the on-board stuff but it always seems to fall short for me.

[Dashers]

100%....but the market "demands" it... so we need to ride this roller coaster back down into the non illuminated world again over time

I look forward to the day where I can buy a case which only way of looking inside is through tiny ventilation holes, and the only LEDs are the status ones subtly tucked away for diagnostics.

Death to windowed cases, death to LEDs and life to front panels that aren't air-flow blockers. Oh, and with a 5.25" bay.

[Ttaskmaster]

to be honest, you're right.. I do have some Senns but luckily not 4 figures

I'm really not...
I personally just use some cheapy Steelseries ones and generally eschew expensive audio kit - It always sounds warm and rich and everything, but it never sounds 'right' or 'as it should'.

[firewrath9]

I'd much rather have a schiit stack or a schiit Asgard over an internal sound card. Better sound quality, you get a volume knob, and you save an expansion slot. Also, less interference. Also 7.1 doesn't do anything, and sucks.

[maxp779]

USB DAC > Any sound card. Dosent even need to be an expensive DAC, Topping D10 or Khadas tone board are great cheap DAC's.

My last sound card was a Xonar STX. Even then I was a bit late to realize sound cards had been a pretty useless investment for a long time.

[Ravuncher]

My onboard sound also blew my mind! bought a minidac/amp (on the budget side) and I couldnt tell much of a difference from my onboard motherboard audio. same with an old creative soundcard I once owned, onboard has come a long way, Evga is still so determined on this product...

[kellyharding]

I've been looking at getting a dedicated sound card for a short while, since using an external amplifier (admittely not an expensive one), as I seem to get a lot of crackling on the onboard (it could be the cable mind!).

So, I'll take a look at these. The last time I bought a sound card it had a PCI connector and before that it was an AWE32 card (as pictured above). A USB DAC might be a consideration mind.