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drumphil said:
Lol, I just noticed that amirm, who runs audio science review has commented in that thread!

Post number 478.



You know, for the cost of a Nu Audio card, and a copy of fidelizer, you could have just got an external DAC with far superior audio fidelity!

Frankly, if fidelizer actually did what it claimed to do, then none of the digital audio links in the studios I manage would work without it! And they all do. If the problem it claims to solve was real, then the stuff I do wouldn't work, and it does.
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The NU audio is actually an external DAC converted to be an internal card.
Audio Note are those who designed the card.Unfortunetly audio note has no experience in building audio internal cards hence the challenges.
They released a revised card Nu Audio Pro that addresses many of the initial problems.
 
Looks like they managed to make it a bit better than the last one. (Yellow and blue lines in the middle of the pack)



https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...u-audio-pro-review-internal-sound-card.19728/

Headphone amp seems decent, and it can output 8 channels for 7.1 surround sound, so that's not bad for the price. Probably beyond the limits of human perception at that point, so I'm not sure what could be gained spending money on software tricks like fidelizer (that doesn't work) that wouldn't be better spent on just getting a higher fidelity audio device if you really think getting better fidelity than that matters.

Any time you spend $50 on something to improve the audio fidelity of a sound card, you've gotta ask yourself why you didn't just put that $50 into getting a sound card with better fidelity. That can go on until you've got a $5,000 sound card, at which point you've gotta wonder how on earth a $5,000 sound card can have it's audio fidelity improved by a $50 bit of software, and what magical thing is it that the maker of such software knows that the makers of the sound card don't.
 
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drumphil said:
Looks like they managed to make it a bit better than the last one. (Yellow and blue lines in the middle of the pack)



https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...u-audio-pro-review-internal-sound-card.19728/

Headphone amp seems decent, and it can output 8 channels for 7.1 surround sound, so that's not bad for the price. Probably beyond the limits of human perception at that point, so I'm not sure what could be gained spending money on software tricks like fidelizer (that doesn't work) that wouldn't be better spent on just getting a higher fidelity audio device if you really think getting better fidelity than that matters.

Any time you spend $50 on something to improve the audio fidelity of a sound card, you've gotta ask yourself why you didn't just put that $50 into getting a sound card with better fidelity. That can go on until you've got a $5,000 sound card, at which point you've gotta wonder how on earth a $5,000 sound card can have it's audio fidelity improved by a $50 bit of software, and what magical thing is it that the maker of such software knows that the makers of the sound card don't.
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Thx for the graph...There will not be a 5000$ audio card for gaming/mainstream segment.The most expensive sound card that i know is the creative AE-9 but because it has external modules and stuff.It costs around 500$.
I am not speaking about studio/production sound cards with balanced outputs and stuff.Just plain gaming / audiophile sound cards.
Another thing is MOST PC users are on the onboard soundcards like Realtek.The thing mainboard manufacturers tried to do a little bit more about the sound so they isolated the circuits on mainboard and put quality caps.
The discreete sound card segments like Nu Audio and Creative Ae-7 and Ae-9 is considered luxury in the pc market.Keep that in mind.Vast majority of users are ok with onboard sound card.
From a professional like it may seem decent/ bugdet level what is on Nu audio pro but for PC community is luxurious.
 
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Just keep in mind that 16-bit audio is intended to be ~96 dB of dynamic range, so having anything more than that is pointless.

There are no devices that can do 24-bit's 144 dB range.

These kinds of dynamic ranges are really useful for mastering or even mixing where certain operations would cause you to lose bit depth. They are not useful to listeners.

Also, most music has single digit dynamic range. So we're barely even using anywhere close to the amount of data 16-bit provides.
 
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