Strix Soar is a gaming sound card with high power components for gamers who want a genuine and volume-rich sound. The Strix Soar offers a volume rich, thrilling and crystal clear sound thanks to its incredible signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 116 dB. Your 600Ohm headphone amplifier allows a deep and tight bass response beyond. The easy-to-use and powerful Sonic Studio Sound tool provides comprehensive settings for the sound card and allows simple adjustments in the game. The Strix Soar is equipped with the latest Sonic Studio software suite, with which the user has complete control over all sound technologies from the equalizer (EQ) to the balancing of the 7.1 speakers. Sonic Studio offers control capabilities on a single page, which presents the user with all the options at a glance with an intuitive "point and click" user interface, on which sound profiles can be preset to suit different sound needs. Current games offer much more than just gorgeous graphics - thanks to precise acoustic positioning are gamers their opponents always one step ahead. For this reason, the Strix Soar with Sonic Radar Pro features, a unique technology from ASUS, visualizes the noise sources in the game and reinforced so that your opponents in first-person shooters have no chance. Start your favorite game and Sonic Radar Pro will automatically display a head-up display (HUD) with radar that shows the game in relation to your position. This way you'll always know where you find yourself on the battlefield and what happens around you. You can also enable multiple radar optimizations can be visualized with which certain sounds, such as. Footsteps, gunfire and exclamation and amplified. The sounds are displayed on the HUD 360, even if the view is obscured so that your opponents remain for you never invisible, and you other players about getting an advantage are. In addition, the appearance and the position of Sonic Radar display on the screen for each game can be customized and make sense to you. The Hi-Fi DAC (digital to analog converter) ESS SABRE9006A offers unsurpassed, jitter-free sound and an excellent signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 116 dB, enabling a 32-fold higher sound purity than conventional on-board audio solutions. The powerful headphone amplifier TI TPA6120 exploits the potential of your gaming headset to the full. The amplifier ensured with 600 Ohm improved bass response, and a detailed, clear sound.