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Share your opinion/experience on the Phoebus here.

hingj0n
Level 7
So a half year later since I bought this card, nothing changed really... The drivers suck monkey b*lls, especially on Windows 8.

The following problems are those which I find the most annoying;
Game Crashes
Incompatible Games
Controller volume knob buggs (sound hangs and if you turn the volume up using the knob, the volume goes up and down randomly
Sample rate on 192khz just doesn't work well, pitch changes, sound pops in background applications like youtube
Sometimes the audio is a low volume when changing from headphones to speakers even though it's on max volume
Xear Surround sounds really awfull, and it locks the sample rate to 48khz.
Dolby Home Theater v4 Volume leveling is sometimes really annoying (I think this is on Dolby)

DTS is buggy as hell, it's like that the surround effect is only coming from the left side.

Okay, Raja@ASUS, let me clarify the 192khz part, if you start a game in 192khz, the sound on iTunes or Youtube starts popping, just like the game sound itself. Though you can close the background apps and restart the game (then you won't have popping sounds), you still have a different pitch when your graphics card starts working (like in SimCity) it's so annoying that I just go back to 44.1 khz.

And the worst of all:
Microphone Noise... Damn... even though this card doesn't use anything from the motherboard its power, I still get an anoying noise.


If the drivers were well-made, I would be glad that I've bought this product, but... I'm very dissapointed at the moment and would be glad if ASUS would make a trade offer or gave me my money back.

So guys, what do you think?
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x7007
Level 7
This is a good card with Berdynamic DT990 600ohm, but I was sick of Dolby Surround, it didn't give a true virtual surround with 5.1 channels, so I bought Creative ZXR and it seems better, still need more checking. I just got it today

Well I have to say that I have had only a few of the issues other people on here have had to deal with using my Phoebus, and they have all been cleared up with the last Netflix fix driver. The only thing I am somewhat let down by is that it would have been nice to have faster driver releases. It is a ROG device after all. Plus it would be nice to see Sound Radar added to the card, but over all my experience has been very positive.

The worst thing that i have with this card is the inability to use the Mic Input, the buzzing and humming on this card is crazy. To fix this i had to by a 3$ USB mic off Ebay or activate the internal soundcard to use it`s Mic input that didn`t had interference.
i7-4790k + Corsair H80i | Asus Maximus VII Ranger | 16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 | Sapphire R9-290 OC Vapor-X 4GB | Asus Xonar Phoebus + Audio Technica M50 | 1xSSD Corsair 120 GB | 4x1 TB Seagate HDD | Corsair CX750M | Corsair Carbide 300R | Razer Taipan + Logitech G11 | Windows 10 64bit

10upn2down
Level 7
I just wanted to thanks everyone for your words on this thread. I will NOT be buying this card. i will not be buying any other ASUS products due to the moderator, Raj or something. From his responses it is obvious why the customer service stinks. My call was, Hey I don't understand what the OWNERS MANUAL is says.... response... read the owners manual... well OK then. Again Thanks sorry ASUS, its a cruel world and you lose with this dude.