Stereophile magazine's John Atkinson loved the Asus Xonar Essence ST/STX sound cards. They are, by far, the least expensive way of turning a PC into a genuine high-resolution audio source.

This graph shows the output signal characteristics of the Essence ST. The more linear the graphed line is, the more transparent and neutral the cards audio output is. Variances in the graph ...

the most recent version of ALSA in the Linux kernel supports the Xonar D1, D2, D2X, DX, Essence ST (Deluxe), Essence STX and also the HDAV1.3 (Deluxe), although that one is still considered to be in ...

With the Xonar Essence STX, one of the first things you'll note as an audiphile, is that the "muddiness" is gone in high quality tracks. Listening to your music collection using this card through ...

Just make sure you actually need the extra headphone clarity. Pure movie use might look at another Xonar card. I ran into no driver issues. Questions are welcome.

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The Xense card itself has a basic spec similar to Asus' own high-end Xonar Essence STX (£150 ... was right to make an 8GB version of RX 9060 XT GPU, but PC gamers are finding it easy to be ...

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My fellow audio crazies, we have a special treat for you today, in our labs we have a Xonar Essence ST Deluxe 7.1 soundcard. Yes, you read it right, the full deluxe model! We will get to the ...

Synopsis: The Asus Xonar Essence STX delivers exactly as promised in these benchmarks. With a measured dB of 116.7@192khz that is just under the max capable level of the input section (118dB).