What to use for sound: Xonar DX or Supreme FX ?

[Ajinta]

Hello I got myself a new Maximus 8 Ranger motherboard which has Supreme FX sound on it which is told to be best motherboard audio. In my current build I am usin Xonar DX souncard wit unofficial driver, because official actualy sound bad at least for me. I must state that I only use TOSLINK output and no headphones. I heve a 5.1 system with high quality floorstanding speakers and a Harman Kardon AVR5500 reciver. It is unit from 2001 and I wont replaci since it sounds better than most never ones, it has 16 kilos by the way. I am usinx xonar for Dolby digital, but Supreme FX uses DTS.neo. No problem for me because receiver can use both encodings. My question is if supreme FX isbetter than 8 year old card for optical listening or not and if someone has any experience. I am asking in advance as I am still waiting for my RAM to have all the parts for Skylake build.

[DarkRift5]

Well I'm not an expert on specialized PC sound cards, but DTS will almost always sound better than Dolby Digital. Think about using an external DAC/amp, as internal sound cards can be compromised by the other components.

[Ajinta]

I heard that too...xonar DX only does dolby digital.

[EChondo]

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[SSL]

If you're using optical, you're bypassing ALL audio processing on your motherboard or soundcard.

[HelplmChoking]

6 hours ago, Ajinta said:

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Optical is digital, so the card/mobo won't be processing the audio anyway. If you try both out, and find one to sound better, use that one. It shouldn't make a huge difference though.