EVGA NU Audio Sound Card

[Ferrum Master]

I am not your enemy Ferrum.

Almost a half of your TPU posts contain remarks and bites towards me? Yea I wiped vitriol off the keyboard too, for sure. Ain't it a bit weird? Telling to someone that he is not your enemy?

I don't need to add anything, the graphs are already there, points given. Just read from the start. Anyone googling up can read up, compare and decide, what the product does. I don't need to react to anything really. Shots are fired. I am not taking anything back from it. Your remarks actually bring more irony and bad press to it. I would be fired for that.

 

[Dumbassrevealer]

This is why I chose my avatar as dumbassrevealer.

 

[Caring1]

This is why I chose my avatar as dumbassrevealer.

Because Dumbassflasher was taken?

 

[Dumbassrevealer]

Hahaha!

 

[Metroid]

Nowadays is better to have an external dac and amp hardware, soundcards uses 1 pcie slot and sometimes there are interference.

 

[Totally]

You are exaggerating. It is not that difficult to design a card inside a PC. Look up at the measurements, noise floor. Can you see any bad things? I compared external vs internal device with similar DAC. If your assembled hardware is defective and doesn't comply with EN 55022 blame yourself. The more if you live near ar radio tower, the heck even a rouge phone wall charger near even your dedicated interfaces will suffer, You have to do checkup of your gear, no matter if its inside or outside the case, same rules apply for both. Actually external devices also induct a loop and gimp on proper multilayer board design often, it doesn't apply as rule that they all are better. I wonder during early years people were happy using EMU cards, and some still use, also Lynx2 for professional needs. Their measurements using spectrum analyzers were fine. I haven't seen on the scope anything alien in the noise floor also unless the device is defective, the limiting factor is the DAC implementation, experience and targeted cost. It is much easier to develop for newer dac like ESS as they reside even more robust internal PSRR and you can gimp on external parts, and that's the reason they appear already on motherboards. They are very immune to your stated problems, that was a serious issue years before. Maybe you can share your experience with examples.

Because respectable manufacturers states specs of their devices also noise floor(the new or shady ones hide it, look at the Kingston Mic at front page news, they hide most important parameters, look up at the Blue and there they are I wonder why lol). If it would suck in something, someone for sure would file an class action suit for claiming false advertising.

I just bought this card on impulse (was on sale $40 off and I had a $50 gift card) and thought I'd look at the graphs, and the variances are like .4% overall, pretty sure I'm not going to notice let alone care doubt I could do better for $99.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I just bought this card on impulse (was on sale $40 off and I had a $50 gift card) and thought I'd look at the graphs, and the variances are like .4% overall, pretty sure I'm not going to notice let alone care doubt I could do better for $99.

If it fits, okay. This review is obsolete as in the wild there are already version 1.3 boards with few component changes, who knows what else in the layers, still it doesn't solve the main issues in certain scenarios. The reviewed ones are 1.00. Just replace the OP275 if you don't believe me, then look up to the Op amps in small-signal audio design book by Doug Self.