![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Granted the material used comes second to its features but when you pay such an amount for an audio card you expect more, at least i do. Another issue is with the ACM since it’s made out of plastic and feels quite “cheap”. Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier I was surprised to see that the rear top LEDs are neither RGB nor can they be controlled from within the Sound Blaster Command software. This is not really a surprise since Creative has been in the business of making gaming oriented cards since the 90’s but that difference didn’t exist with the ZxR so it’s obvious that they put more effort in the development of this model. You see in movies and audio all 3 cards (NU Audio/NU Audio Pro/Sound Blaster AE-9) perform roughly the same (with the NU Audio Pro model leading by a very small margin) but when moving to games (especially like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Doom Eternal) the Sound Blaster AE-9 is the clear winner thanks to its incredibly detailed audio, probably because of its several cutting edge gaming enhancements, scout mode included. Just like in the case of the EVGA NU Audio/Pro cards sound quality is very noticeable between the X-Fi Titanium HD and ZxR models and the Sound Blaster AE-9 (in pretty much everything) but when comparing the former with the latter (NU Audio/Pro & Sound Blaster AE-9) things get somewhat complicated. So as expected I compared the Sound Blaster AE-9 to the previous X-Fi Titanium HD and ZxR models and the EVGA NU Audio and NU Audio Pro models for a total of 17 days with several movies (Blu-Ray), lossless audio tracks (FLAC) and games (Star Citizen, Forza Horizon 4, Doom Eternal, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Grand Theft Auto V and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey). This review compares the AE-9 to the Nu Audio and also Nu Audio Pro, and it sounds to me like they think they're all nearly the same except for gaming:Īs with previous audio cards I used the Sound Blaster AE-9 with two surround sound systems (5.1 Yamaha Amp with Crystal Audio Speakers / 7.1 Yamaha Amp with Tannoy Speakers - optical) and two stereo speaker sets (Harman Kardon Nova / Edifier S1000DB - analog) and even though these are far from the best speakers out in the market they do point out possible differences between cards, quite effectively I might add. ![]()
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