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Is this Sound card Better than mine?

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System Name "The black one in the dining room" / "The Latest One"
Processor Intel Xeon E5 2699 V4 22c/44t / i9 14900K @6GHz
Motherboard Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z790 Taichi
Cooling Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans / Arctic LF II 280 w 4 Silverstone FHP141's
Memory 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 96GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6800
Video Card(s) EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW3 / Asus Tuff OC 4090 24GB
Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro & more.
Display(s) 43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 65" Hisense U8N 4K
Case Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Corsair Graphite 780 T
Audio Device(s) Asus Xonar Essence STX/ Asus Xonar Essence STX II
Power Supply Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300
Mouse Logitech Performance MX, Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0
Keyboard Logitech K750 Solar, Logitech K800
Software Win 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 / Win 11 IoT Enterprise IoT LTSC 24H2
Benchmark Scores https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=202122048229 (before upgrades)
I recently bought two Asus Xonar Essence audio cards off Ebay. I think I paid $67 for one and $74 for the second (and the second had free shipping). The audio quality is superb running into high-end studio gear. I use the aftermarket Uni drivers with all of my Asus sound cards.
 
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