M-Audio Revolution 5.1

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M-Audio engineers did a good job of overhauling Revolution7.1. They installed the high-quality DAC AKM 4358, separate headphones output, internal AUX, and still this card is cheaper. Unfortunately, its drivers are not free of bugs, and there are no updates.

Expedience of the card is questionable, because the card is optimized for certain tasks, namely: playing music through any configurations (from 2.0 to 5.1) with a separate high-quality output to headphones, convenient control, and functional bass management. It's practically a perfect choice of a melomaniac, who needs nothing but high quality playback of music and movies.

It will be a bad choice for beginning Pro Audio musicians because of intricate ASIO channel labels, primitive signal routing, and dead SPDIF in ASIO. Audiotrak Prodigy7.1 LT will be a better choice for working with sound - a separate output to headphones and a similar price ($85-$90). Or E-MU0404, ESI MAYA44.

Gamers will gain nothing new from this card, it's little different from integrated audio in Sensaura algorithms. Junior X-Fi cards or even cheaper Audigy2 Value/Audigy4 cards that allow to disable SRC will be more expedient with the launch of X-Fi XtremeMusic or X-Fi XtremeGamer OEM.