yes it is better if you are gonna use headphone and that too for movies and music... it has a built in amp... not as powerful as that of the xonar essence st but would do good enough with normal headphones... far better for music listening than creative headphones... although for gaming you might want to go with creative as that has better positional audio for games(unless you have great headphone, it won't matter how good the sound card is)... and you won't find it in pakistan.... there is nothing in pakistan... get it imported... it is not expensive at all.... although i might suggest you get the fiio e17 dac/amp... great quality and can be used a great portable amp as well...AOA...anybody know how is Asus xonar DG sound card? i have rx700 JVC...
is this sound card better than xifi titanium?
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if you want to hear quality music then never ever watch videos etc... unless it is dts audio.... download the sound track in .flac or .ape format... i am also intrigued with this soundtrack so i am gonna find it in high quality for you... also never download anything with less than 320kbps bitrate... lower than that is just not good enough(i remember the good old days of 128kbps)resident Asus sound card expert @HAMMER of THOR.
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I recently watched "Iron Sky". Nice lil production, whacky nazis from moon. meh.
What got me was the amazing sound quality of the soundtrack at the end over the credits playing. Its "Under the Iron sky" by Laibach. Listened to the whole song in the film, which was your standard 720p ~6gb version on 5.1 speaker settings.
Went to youtube to get its audio file and even the '1080p' file which I got was subpar interms of quality... and not just tad inferior but hella lot coz Im not an expert audiophile but the sound quality was damn noticeable!!
So, I wanted to know whats the format for getting HD audio files of songs etc?? like in movies we can switch b/w 5.1 etc but in audio files we cant....
Suggestions??