Asus Blu-ray Drive Has Integrated Xonar Sound Card and Headphone Amplifier

[Marcus Yam]

Still have the need for a disc drive? Might as well make it great for playing movies!

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[dgingeri]

hmmm... I kinda like the sound of this. (no pun intended.) I could take the optical drive and the PCIe sound card out of my machine and run them through USB. That makes room for 4 more SSDs and an additional GTX680.

 

[bjaminnyc]

Interesting product. I like the idea of hiding the PC entirely and just having that on my desk.

 

[warezme]

Interesting how a BD player can integrate a full audio card and headphone boost but a fairly good Reciever like my Yamaha RX-671 does not provide amplification for headphones and unlike my old Kenwood disables the speakers when I plug in a headphone. My old Kenwood boosted the headphones to perfection and gave you the option to disable the speakers in sets or all of them or leave them all on. 1 step forward and 2 steps back.

 

[BulkZerker]

Now just make it fit in a 5.25 bay and I'll rip out this LG unit I've had for 6 years.

 

[Shin-san]

This sounds interesting to me. A higher-end headphone amp costs $100 by itself. On top of that, I bought 250 ohm headphones (DT 770s, baby!) and with an amp, they sound amazing.