Phoebus been discontinued?! Has Asus given up on this card??

[davidm71]

Guess as being an early adopter you take all the risks in testing new hardware. I got my Phoebus about the same time I got my new Asus RT-66U router, about six months ago, and since then the RT-N66u has had like half dozen bios updates at least. The Phoebus is still in Beta mode. Then I see that Newegg has this card in the 'Discontinued' category. Talk about a short life span!

Whats going on here?! I smell something fishy! All of us who adopted this card paid top dollar for it and it wasnt cheap. How about a new non-beta driver please?

Thank you.

[InnervateD]

xjoey83x wrote:
Unfortunately I will be selling off my Xonar Phoebus, I preordered a Soundblaster Zxr. In the long run i found any of the software enchancements for the Phoebus made the quality worse on my Beyer DT990s.

You're better off.
the Phoebus really won't be able to fully utilize the DT990s, don't get me wrong, but with the software issues right now it's really not worth the headache.

There's about only 2 cards on the market that will do those headphones justice and that would be the Xonar Essence ST/STX and the Creative Soundblaster ZxR when it releases. Creative said mid January to late January is the expected arrival time for the ZxR.

I'll be picking up a ZxR too, as I have just finally received my own Beyerdynamics DT990s too.
I can't wait to get my pair burned in and and get some amazing sound coming out of these headphones. I heard great things about this set of headphones which made me want to drop the money on some premium studio grade headphones. I picked up the 600 Ohms version so the ZxR will drive these well. The daughter board's a little ugly with the connecting cable connecting on the side of the main card and the daughter card but whatever. I'll only be connecting the digital out for my 5.1 speakers off the daughter board and the headphones out from the main card.

[Thirteenth]

So, because of ****ty driver support a lot of people turn (or think) to creative or another SC from asus (inculding my self). Way to go asus, way to go. I just wondering how many programmer do u have to develope the driver? Just one person?

[Glasofruix]

Well creative are not really known for their outstanding driver support either...

[xjoey83x]

Alright so my ZxR came in today and I am marveled at how superb the quality and surround positioning is. +1 for Creative on this one

[genkifd]

ZXR would be good for me as i need anaolgue surround outputs.

ROG just need to get the driver right for this card - I for one is having SLI issues with Phoebus installed. love the sound quality but SLI issue is really annoying.

[ozzydog153]

did you try the sound card in a pcie slot not designed for sli? what about the nvidia hd audio driver installed by default is that turned off

[genkifd]

ozzydog153 wrote:
did you try the sound card in a pcie slot not designed for sli? what about the nvidia hd audio driver installed by default is that turned off

yes i have installed the sound card in all possible locations and the result is the same.

if i turn off HD audio device i have no audio at all.

[Nodens]

Glasofruix wrote:
Well creative are not really known for their outstanding driver support either...

+1. I don't have a Phoebus but I can tell you that Creative drivers are utter crap. I am one of the 3-4 people that exposed serious issues on the Creative drivers (http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=251993) a looong time ago (you'll see my posts in the thread as Nodens as well-we dissected the driver at the time because Creative was claiming there was no issue lol). Creative hardware is nice but the drivers were and still are the worst in the audio interface industry. You will find that the Reversed Engineered kx Drivers byEugene Gavrilov are the best thing you can install for your older soundblaster.

I've jumped ship at that point and bought a Xonar D2X. I am happy with it although its drivers are far from perfect (DPC latency issues) but at least you don't have "game-breaking" issues. If you think that Xonar drivers are bad..stay the hell away from Creative..

[Gopher]

Nodens wrote:
+1. I don't have a Phoebus but I can tell you that Creative drivers are utter crap. I am one of the 3-4 people that exposed serious issues on the Creative drivers (http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=251993) a looong time ago (you'll see my posts in the thread as Nodens as well-we dissected the driver at the time because Creative was claiming there was no issue lol). Creative hardware is nice but the drivers were and still are the worst in the audio interface industry. You will find that the Reversed Engineered kx Drivers byEugene Gavrilov are the best thing you can install for your older soundblaster.

I've jumped ship at that point and bought a Xonar D2X. I am happy with it although its drivers are far from perfect (DPC latency issues) but at least you don't have "game-breaking" issues. If you think that Xonar drivers are bad..stay the hell away from Creative..

You should take a look at the Uni Xonar drivers for your D2X. I use them myself currently on my STX and there is an option to install it with settings that lowers the DPC latency + it uses way newer drivers from C-media than the ones Asus provide.

[Nodens]

Gopher wrote:
You should take a look at the Uni Xonar drivers for your D2X. I use them myself currently on my STX and there is an option to install it with settings that lowers the DPC latency + it uses way newer drivers from C-media than the ones Asus provide.

Thanks for the suggestion mate but I am using Unixonar since 1.01 and I'm also tweaking the driver myself as I'm doing some experimental audio stuff 🙂