AOPEN AX4B 533 AUDIO DRIVER

How the Future Would Be. Where the River Goes. Built by a group of dedicated engineers, AOpen has allowed the creativity of their designers and engineers to bring the plain AOpen AX4B to a higher ground. Recording of June Bonus Recording of December This is an old archive page of HWZ prior to revamp.

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A true "tube motherboard" with Pentium 4 performance would be the size of several football fields, dwarfing the early Univac. With Intel's E chipset, the AOpen AX4B Tube motherboard is said to provide "a revolutionary fusion of old and new technology, producing unsurpassed PC audio output that takes full advantage of the Intel Pentium 4 processor's capabilities.

An early June announcement from the company touts the audio capabilities of the AX4B Tube Motherboard, so called because of an onboard dual triode, a Sovtek Stereophile's Products of Recording of August Using personal computers to listen to music may be heresy in some audiophile circles, but the practice is definitely on the rise. The Old Meets the New Every once in a long while, there's always someone out there who will introduce a radical motherboard design - something that's so different and so unexpected.

The reproduced sound was absolutely amazing.

AOpen AX4B - motherboard - ATX - Socket - iE Overview - CNET

Create new account Request new password. What we realized at that moment was how the limitations of typical audio output from a PC as we akdio it had come to an end—and what we were pioneering was a way to literally combine the best of two audio worlds, old and new.

Kingko Audio and Omega. Bonus Recording of December Normally, such radical ideas would have been thrown right out of the Product Manager's office and never been heard ever again.

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AOpen AX4B-533 - motherboard - ATX - Socket 478 - i845E

This time around, it is AOpen that shocked us all with the Vacuum Tube motherboard. Joan Baez In Concert, Part 2. At this kind of economic climate, it's very daring of AOpen to pull this kind of stunt indeed.

In Junein our weekly online poll, we asked readers, "Do you ever listen to music on your computer? Recognizing that tube amps have long been favored by guitar players and audiophiles—and that there must be some reason for this other than blind faith—AOpen engineers decided to include the tube circuitry as an audio buffer for stereo playback or for the left and right front channels in a surround sound system.

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Vandersteen Event in Atlanta Thursday November 1. It left everyone stunned. The announcement does not mention whether AOpen has provided a way to put the dual triode in standby mode or to turn it off when not in use.

Recognition of the fact has led at least one maker of computer motherboards to introduce a model with a vacuum-tube audio circuit.

Recording of November Dealer Event in San Francisco Thursday. The AX4B is intended primarily for audiophiles, music lovers, and "serious gamers" who want the best possible sound, according to AOpen product manager Al Peng, a self-described "audiophile for more than ten years.

Shop Recordings Buyer's Guides More. The analog auido of any standard sound card can be looped through the tube circuit, according to wudio announcement. Where the River Goes. First showcased during Computex this year, this board has received a lot of interests and it has changed how we perceive a motherboard. Dealer Event in Chicago Saturday. The Best Jazz Albums of Audiophile components such as Rel-Caps and Cardas wiring are used where applicable, and AOpen claims to have solved the problems of using tubes in a computer's electrically noisy environment.

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