Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card Review

[Dashken]

If you want the audio fidelity of the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro but with a price tag below $200, then you absolutely must take a look at the Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 sound card.

Designed and built by Auzentech around the Creative X-Fi audio processor, the Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 is chock-full of quality opamps and even 64MB of onboard X-RAM. This is definitely a sound card made for audiophiles who want to game as well.

Here's a quote from the review :-

"They first popped up late 2005 with their X-Mystique 7.1 sound card. They knew well enough they couldn't beat Creative at its own game when it came to gaming. So, just like Audiotrak and Onkyo, they concentrated on audiophiles and audio enthusiasts, delivering sound cards with board layouts that focus on analog quality, swappable operational amplifiers, better DACs and a slew of other features."

Link : Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Sound Card Review

[The_YongGrand]

That's a cool sound card for the audiophiles! Will my favourite Baroque music sound better in this card, provided if I have those wooden, 3-speaker style (woofer-tweeter-mid) system?

Also, this op-amp is high-quality. Must be very expensive, and it's replacable, like 'processor upgrade'! Currently I only come to know about good instrumentation amps (the cheapest I could obtain is the Burr-Brown INA128).

[Chai]

Just when I thought of getting this card...This is what X-Fi should have been.

But it's too expensive for me.

[empire23]

Originally Posted by The_YongGrand

That's a cool sound card for the audiophiles! Will my favourite Baroque music sound better in this card, provided if I have those wooden, 3-speaker style (woofer-tweeter-mid) system?

Also, this op-amp is high-quality. Must be very expensive, and it's replacable, like 'processor upgrade'! Currently I only come to know about good instrumentation amps (the cheapest I could obtain is the Burr-Brown INA128).

Bach and Corelli played by Manze and Podger sounds absolutely wonderful on this card if you ask me. The trills are well defined, the tonal accuracy (most important when it comes to baroque if you ask me) is dead on 90 percent of the time, and the card simply doesn't miss a beat of sound when it comes to sonically challenging pieces.

Tartini's simple violin sonatas and the Art of the bow are two other pieces i hold in high regard when it comes to testing out whether an SC can deliver prescision when it comes to making good music rather than just technically competent music since baroque simply didn't have the equipment to go technical lol, so it made up in melody. And i'll have to say, the card does pretty darn well i tell you.

[Mac Daddy]

I still love my Auzentech X-Plosion here for most things works well. For the studio we use M-Audio its pricey but hey you get what you pay for

M-AUDIO

[Papercut]

Originally Posted by Chai

Just when I thought of getting this card...This is what X-Fi should have been.

But it's too expensive for me.

There's always the X-Fi XtremeMusic + Head-Fi mod

[Chai]

Originally Posted by Papercut

There's always the X-Fi XtremeMusic + Head-Fi mod

head fi mod?

XtremeMusic is not really a good card. It would be easier to get Prelude.

[Papercut]

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[nearownkira]

empire23,will you review the audiotrak prodigy hd2 somewhere in the future, so that I can compare with Auzen X-Fi Prelude with the HD2 i am using now.

[empire23]

Originally Posted by nearownkira

empire23,will you review the audiotrak prodigy hd2 somewhere in the future, so that I can compare with Auzen X-Fi Prelude with the HD2 i am using now.

No problem man.

I actually have the HD2 sitting here doing nothing. Bought it for review but i haven't gotten to reviewing the tiny beast just yet. But rest assured, i should have a review delivered to Adrian when i've finished my "build your own interconnect" guide.