Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners DAC: computer Soundcard vs CD Player?

DJ

I'd ordered the Revolution 5.1 yesterday, it has the AKM AK4358 DAC chip, supposedly better than the 7.1's, it has higher SN/DR, lower THD, and require less CPU to run this sucker. I was doing some research on the AK4358 and came across another kicka$$ card, have you ever heard of the ESI Juli@??

check this out:
http://www.ixbt.com/multimedia/esi/julia/esi-juli@-lynx-two-2496-4dbu-balanced.shtml

This puppy is laying the smack down on the Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro too, and rival the $400 EMU1820, and get this...the ADC is rated at 24/192 with 114dB DR!!! it's even being compare to the $1000+ LynxTwo and hold up pretty well against it:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/esi-julia/

The card is going for only $139, I'll look around and see if there's any better deal, I might get the Juli and do some A/B test with the Revo 5.1.