Need a good sound card suggestion

[The Incinerator]

if the matter of sound quality then i choose the best sound card.budget 10-12k.or may be higher.
I have Logitech z5500 speaker 5.1

not every time price is not important,price is high but product not as much good as price...

Im sorry to say but you dont have a good or revealing Home Theater set up that will do justice to a Rs 12K sound card. You wont even notice the difference trust me when its audio! You will be simply wasting the money. If you had a Rs 120K Home theater set up with a good AVR I would have asked you to get a great sound card.

For the kind of speakers or the Z5500 speakers that you have you are too good with a Asus Xonar DSX,if you need encoding on the fly or if just analog get the DGX.But since DSX has Wolfson DACs its a tad warmer over the DGX which use Cirrus Logic and is more bumped in the mid frequency range ,and since the Z5500 are brash the DGX is a better match being neutral and warmer. The maximum you should spend considering the the justice your Inbuilt amp and satellite speakers will do you should not buy anything above a Asus Xonar DX.

Xonar Essence STX and XT are good when you have Dynaudio as your PC speakers!!! I use onboard with a Razer Mako and ASUS Xonar STX only with my Rs 150K+ stereo system! So thats the relativity.......

My two cents....now its your call!

 

[surya_sapui]

at least suggest a card which have a spdif port

 

[RCuber]

Xonar ST has Optical out, I have it but use the card for stereo headphones only

 

[surya_sapui]

but i want to use for 5.1 sound system

 

[The Incinerator]

at least suggest a card which have a spdif port

Buy the Xonar DSX or Xonar DX

 

[surya_sapui]

Buy the Xonar DSX or Xonar DX

in above suggested card where is the spdif port ?

 

[Chaitanya]

in above suggested card where is the spdif port ?

*www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_DigitaltoAnalog_Converters/Xonar_DX/#specifications

*www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_DigitaltoAnalog_Converters/Xonar_DSX/#specifications
There you may find that both cards have ports..

 

[topgear]

no offense to Op but why people not always search first and then ask .. after getting a suggestion for a product the first thing one should do is to check out the specs on the manufacturers website.

 

[Chaitanya]

no offense to Op but why people not always search first and then ask .. after getting a suggestion for a product the first thing one should do is to check out the specs on the manufacturers website.

yeah they are get lazy enough due to us

 

[surya_sapui]

*www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_DigitaltoAnalog_Converters/Xonar_DX/#specifications

*www.asus.com/Sound_Cards_and_DigitaltoAnalog_Converters/Xonar_DSX/#specifications
There you may find that both cards have ports..

actually in picture of both cards no spdif port image , for this reason i cant understand and i also read the specification.actually i know that its analog to spdif converter so i thought that why converter i want inbuilt spdif because converter as good as inbuilt.