ASUS Xonar Xense Gaming Audio Set Wiring PCB Pictures
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Many a bunched hi-fi arrangement comes complete with speakers abnormally affiliated to the system. Likewise abounding car audio speakers and head-units are acquainted for anniversary added and the amplitude in which they acquisition themselves. So it was conceivably alone a amount of time afore we saw addition ambition the computer audio arena in a agnate fashion.
And that's absolutely what the £200 ASUS Xonar Xense Premium Gaming Set aims to do. It comprises an ASUS Xonar Xense One complete agenda and a set of Sennheiser PC350 headphones, which ASUS affirmation accept been co-developed and acquainted to augment anniversary other's able suits. Interesting, then, that the PC350s accept been about for some time, so it's cryptic how abundant development they accept accurately had for the complete card, save for the 'Xense' and 'powered by ASUS' branding. But is the about-face true?
Box contents
The aboriginal adumbration of Sennheiser's access on this artefact is the box - matte atramentous agenda with bright photos while a bright artificial appendage shows off allotment of the headphones.
Open the Velcro-fastened accessory and addition window shows off the chrome EMI absorber of the complete card. Actual nice. You again accept to appoint in an act affiliated to reverse-engineering origami to get at the absolute products, but it's account it as you appear abroad with a actual beautiful attractive brace of cans, atramentous and blah with a aggregate of matte and appearance finishes.
Size-wise they assume enormous, absolutely enveloping your aerial and activity like they're extensive about beneath the jaw-line. They're about heavy, too, but absolutely comfortable. There is a microphone bang that can be rotated up and out of the way, and an in-line aggregate control/microphone about-face which seems of actual aerial affection and didn’t actualize any added babble during adjustment.
The agenda itself is additionally absolutely a beholder - atramentous PCB, anodised bracket, (mostly) gold-coloured electrolytic capacitors, gold connectors and that EMI absorber attractive like some affectionate of blinged up cartoon agenda fan/exhaust (curiously the autograph on the top of the absorber reads 'acoustics powered by Sennheiser').
The rear of the agenda is about absolutely bright of components, so applicable it abutting to addition agenda shouldn't be a problem, although half-height cards will be abundant easier to fit in HTPC systems.
In agreement of connectivity the aboriginal affair you apprehension is that the mic/line-in and headphone outputs are 1/4 inch (6.3mm) in size, rather than the added accepted 3.5mm. This is apparently to admonish you that austere headphones use austere sockets (i.e., they are college impedance than your boilerplate set). There is additionally a blemish adapter ancient from a DVI anchorage which, via an adaptor, provides alternation 7.1 outputs. Finally there is an S/PDIF out at the basal of the bracket.
Internally, there are pins for advanced console connectors, S/PDIF out and abetting input. The agenda uses a PLX bridging dent to accommodate PCIe x1 connectivity, advertence the dent is natively PCI, and has an added molex ability ascribe that needs to be supplied with ability afore the agenda will work.
Aside from the break-out adaptor, the set comes with a 3.5mm to 6.3mm adaptor, a S/PDIF TOSLINK adaptor, a quick-start adviser and a CD absolute drivers/control software and the abounding chiral in PDF format.
