The Xonar U3 is a pocket-sized, portable USB audio card with complete support for a wide variety of Dolby Technologies for your Hi-Fi enjoyments. GX2.5 For realistic 3D audio effects Enjoy up to 128 different sound effects played simultaneously for a realistic 3D experience! If your Xonar card has a dedicated headphone amplifier, set the soundcards output impedance/gain (Ω = ohm) to a value close to the headphones input impedance (look for it in specifications, data sheet or manual). Do not set the impedance much higher as it may damage the headphones. ASUS Xonar U3 is a mobile headphone amp USB sound card with Dolby technology, GX2.5 and exclusive hyper-grounding technology that upgrades and amplifies audio. It would be very appreciated and, as I think fine donated, if you developed such unified drivers for Mac OS X for ASUS Xonar series. Actually, I was told that ASUS isn't planning any development of drivers for Mac OS X. I think that many users of Macs and Hackintosh builds would donate enough to. Product description The ASUS Xonar U3 is a portable, pocket-sized audio solution that delivers an upgraded audio experience for notebook users. Slightly larger than a standard USB flash drive, the U3 is designed for users looking to turn their notebooks into a personal high fidelity audio center complete with Dolby and GX2.5 support.
Dolby® Technologies : Dolby® Digital Live/Dolby® Headphone /Dolby® Virtual Speaker /Dolby® Pro-Logic II , Smart Volume Normalizer™,Xear 3D™ Virtual Speaker Shifter,Magic Voice™
Karaoke Functions,10 -band Equalizer,27 Environment Effects,GX 2.5 Game Audio Engine, VocalFX™
+The most portable real solution I have seen.
+Price point is very good. Hard to beat the price/quality ratio. So affordable to give it a shot. (You may be astonished)
+ Work with 5.1.1 android as amplifier. I am really satisfy using it with nexus 5 - 5.1.1 ( +3 db gain and wider soundstage)
+Gamers will like it as much as Hifi heads.
+Generally use it with TTPOD 1,Soundsoul S-018 and Koss Ruk30K really satisfied.Plug it to N5 via OTG.
- EQ pre-defined settings are bad. EQ must be developed..Basic Audio Center.
- Not %100 crystal clear output (but very close to it)
- PC Software needs to be updated
Highly recommended for low budget Hifi experience. You need nothing better on the go.
Xonar U3 Mac
koolaidpianist
New Head-Fier
Xonar U3 For Macbook
Xonar U3 Mac Os
So I'm using the Audio Technica ATH-M50s (http://www.head-fi.org/t/386819/audio-technica-ath-m50-review) with the Xonar U3 portable amp (http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Audio_Cards/Xonar_U3/) and I want to know what settings would be optimal for regular usage. My most
frequent activities involve listening to music (320kbps or FLAC) on Winamp or streaming videos and audio online. I game occasionally but not
shooters so having perfect sound in-game isn't necessary for me.
The Xonar U3 software has options for Audio Channel, Sample Rate, Analog Out, SPDIF Out and also stuff like 'HF', 'GX' etc.
Some of these are obvious but just as a precaution, I'd appreciate it if anyone could help figure out the most optimal settings
for all of the aforementioned categories.
Thanks in advance guys!