ASUS Xonar Xense goes for the gaming jugular

by Navin Maini on 22 July 2010, 17:09

Tags: Asus Xonar Xense, ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), Sennheiser

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If you're an avid FPS gamer and hollering for some true sound immersion too, ASUS and Sennheiser may just have a product to stimulate your senses.

Fresh from a year-long 'tuning period' - involving ASUS engineers playing the field with around 1,000 headphone choices - Sennheiser's PC350 flavour was apparently the perfect match for the new Xonar Xense soundcard. Going all new-age on us, ASUS boasts that its new Xonar Xense is a 'holistic design' from the foundation upwards, to deliver a harmony between both soundcard and headphones.

In particularly singling-out FPS gamers, the Xonar Xense is infused with 'FPS-optimised' surround sound technology, said to bring awareness to the minutest of ambient indicators. Accuracy of audio-positioning and an emphasis on noise-reduction are other areas that the company has honed-in on, to create a solution which it claims, delivers 'gaming audio like never before'.

Utilising a single PCI-E slot, the Xonar Xense supports a myriad of I/O options and its feature-set is encrusted with other technologies too - namely support for a medley of Dolby features, including Dolby Headphone 5.1 - plus ASUS' own Xonar GX2.5 audio engine, which emulates the latest EAX gaming audio.

On the Sennheiser PC350 side of the equation, ergonomic design combined with a solid microphone offering is boosted with heavy-duty 6.5mm studio jacks, to complete the package.

Could being kitted-out with an ASUS Xonar Xense mean that you can't blame your tools, next time?



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Do HEXUS need someone to review these? :naughty:
That sounds very much like voluteering to me. :)

Email me - tarinder@hexus.net - and I'm sure we can sort something out.
Any word on release date? Very interested by these!
ooh one for the christmas list maybe?
Tarinder
That sounds very much like voluteering to me. :)

Email me - tarinder@hexus.net - and I'm sure we can sort something out.

Really really really wish I could, but unless it can wait for me to upgrade I'm running such a dinosaur I don't actually have any PCI-E slots to fit this into :(

(have a x1 slot that is blocked if I use a graphics card.. which I am)