I just recently purchased a Xonar DX. I was really excited about it, as all of the reviews for it were extremely good. However, when I hooked it up, something just sounded off compared to my onboard ALC888 and X-Fi Titanium (which I recently sold so I could get the DX).
So, I started up RightMark to test it out. I had to turn the volume down to 50, because otherwise there was tons of noise and such even with the mic in turned way down (it wouldn't let me test it). This is strange considering the X-Fi worked at any volume setting. Once I was able to get everything set up, I ran the tests. The results came out better than onboard, but fell short compared to the results everyone else gets for it. Even the X-Fi did better (except in frequency response, though the left and right channels are a bit separated for some reason).
Naturally, I'm a bit disappointed. What might be causing this, and what should I do about it?
Update: I was doing more comparisons between my RightMark results and reviewers online. My results are closer than I thought when you directly compare the graphs. For example, the noise graph on mine closely resembles those seen online. However, if you follow the graph from the high to low frequencies, the results get worse the lower the frequency gets. Usually around 100hz you'll see a pretty big incline as you go towards lower frequencies. This is what's throwing my numbers off compared to others, as their graphs are usually pretty linear across the frequency spectrum.
Hopefully this extra info helps!
So, I started up RightMark to test it out. I had to turn the volume down to 50, because otherwise there was tons of noise and such even with the mic in turned way down (it wouldn't let me test it). This is strange considering the X-Fi worked at any volume setting. Once I was able to get everything set up, I ran the tests. The results came out better than onboard, but fell short compared to the results everyone else gets for it. Even the X-Fi did better (except in frequency response, though the left and right channels are a bit separated for some reason).
Naturally, I'm a bit disappointed. What might be causing this, and what should I do about it?
Update: I was doing more comparisons between my RightMark results and reviewers online. My results are closer than I thought when you directly compare the graphs. For example, the noise graph on mine closely resembles those seen online. However, if you follow the graph from the high to low frequencies, the results get worse the lower the frequency gets. Usually around 100hz you'll see a pretty big incline as you go towards lower frequencies. This is what's throwing my numbers off compared to others, as their graphs are usually pretty linear across the frequency spectrum.
Hopefully this extra info helps!
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