Onboard tube audio for AOpen

[Pariah]

Saw this over at Slashdot and have to agree this is one of the oddest and funniest things to come around for motherboards in quite a while. Can't wait to see the reviews for this one.

AX4B-533Tube

Close up

 

[Budman]

Too slow.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=801039&STARTPAGE=1

 

[nihil]

Yeah, that really is pretty funny.

 

[jaeger66]

Odd. Anyone who like tubes already has an audio system costing many thousands of dollars. Nobody serious about sound quality listens to music on a computer, and the tube sound isn't going to appeal to people accustomed to the harsh and bright sound of mass-market electronics.

 

[The Sauce]

I have a tube guitar amp and man-oh-man do those suckers get hot...somehow this does not seem like such a great idea.

 

[McCarthy]

That's so bizarre that I like it

--Mc