New Onkyo Audiophile PCI Soundcard!

[yhelothar]

http://www2.onkyo.com/jp/what/...SE-150PCI?OpenDocument

street price $120 :shocked:

 

[BW86]

lol wow

 

[Mloot]

I know absolutely nothing about sound cards. I take it by your reactions that this might be a decent board? Is $120 a good price for a card like this, or is it overpriced? Sorry for the newbie questions, but I have no clue when it comes to sound cards.

 

[bigboxes]

You have more info in something more english?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Why do you care? You only listen to 128kbps MP3.

- M4H

 

[imported_Zeke]

some of us OWN music

 

[yhelothar]

That's because the source makes a much bigger difference than the bitrate of your mp3s.

 

[sharkeeper]

Why do you care? You only listen to 128kbps MP3.

RAR$TunG

Cheers!

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Why do you care? You only listen to 128kbps MP3.

- M4H

LOL! :beer::thumbsup:

 

[Gurck]

:Q that's a lot of capacitors, thing probably weighs 5 pounds

 

[Auric]

Capacitors a-go-go! Swank break-out jack; all cards should be like that.

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: Auric
Capacitors a-go-go! Swank break-out jack; all cards should be like that.

ye, pretty nice... put the 1/8" jacks on the crappy connector, and the gold-plated RCA on the main card.

i bet the drivers are gonna suck for such a low-volume operation, tho

 

[nortexoid]

where the hell are the stereo mini-jack plugs?

 

[Algere]

Looks like it's based on the Envy24 HT DSP (Captain Obvious) although the SNR still doesn't beat the 116 dB that EMU offers below the $120 range.

 

[Dulanic]

It must have a seperate connection card or breakout box... cause it says it has 7.1 analog out, also says Line In x 2, Line Out, and Mic jacks. Onkyo always makes great sound quality products, its always been actual receivers etc till now, but Id bet their soundcard sounds great too.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Algere
Looks like it's based on the Envy24 HT DSP (Captain Obvious) although the SNR still doesn't beat the 116 dB that EMU offers below the $120 range.

116db? isn't that above the threshold of pain? or am i thinking 125 db? and if it was...WHY would you want something that loud? Lol i thin a rock concert is supposed to be something like 125 db

 

[Dulanic]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: Algere
Looks like it's based on the Envy24 HT DSP (Captain Obvious) although the SNR still doesn't beat the 116 dB that EMU offers below the $120 range.

116db? isn't that above the threshold of pain? or am i thinking 125 db? and if it was...WHY would you want something that loud? Lol i thin a rock concert is supposed to be something like 125 db

SNR is not how loud... it is how clear the sound is, the higher the dB rating the less noise. SNR = Signal to Noise Ratio.

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Dulanic
It must have a seperate connection card or breakout box... cause it says it has 7.1 analog out, also says Line In x 2, Line Out, and Mic jacks. Onkyo always makes great sound quality products, its always been actual receivers etc till now, but Id bet their soundcard sounds great too.

Well, we can guess, or we can look at the giant picture on the page to see it is just a cable dongle:

http://www.jp.onkyo.com/press/se-150pci_wc_l.jpg

SNR is the ratio of desired signal strength to noise signal strength. It's not a measure of loudness. Because practically everyone measures it under different conditions using different reference levels comparing SNR numbers between different companies is pretty much a useless exercise. Anything truly over 90dB is beyond what humans are going to be able to notice so buying a card that has a 108dB rating over one that has a 105db rating is pretty pointless.

 

[Thoreau]

Adul thinks that the green connection is a 'mida' port. /me pimpslaps adul

 

[MadMan2k]

Are there any sound cards with a decent built in amp, that have just the two wire outputs for speakers?

 

[LeoMael]

Originally posted by: MadMan2k
Are there any sound cards with a decent built in amp, that have just the two wire outputs for speakers?

Would a typical pc power supply be able to handle a built-in amp on a sound card?

 

[Zepper]

If you need amplification for your speakers, run the ouput of the card thru a receiver or audio amplifier.
.bh.

 

[bluemax]

Never heard of this company or card.... I can't even tell what market it's aimed at, though I would guess entry-level pro audio.

Clean but VERY basic. I only saw one stereo pair, though that green "looks-like-VGA" port could be a breakout box for all kinds of inputs. [shrug] No speak-o the lingo, though.

 

[Zepper]

Yeah, I was gonna say that port looks like std VGA - can just see a noob trying to plug his monitor into the sound card... :roll: Obvious they didn't really think about it - just used an easy convenient connector type with enough circuits - after all, Onkyo is all about HQ audio - not computers. They should have used a male instead of a female connector on the board - the good old serial/parallel idiot-proofing solution from the early days of PCs...
.bh.

There's the :sun: !

 

[WebDude]

Here's another model from Onkyo.

http://www.audiocubes.com/prod...89&products_id=689

Don't know what the differences are (beyone the obvious connectors) because I can't read anything on the original page.