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This thing rocks! Buy it is all I can say. Love the lights, the clarity is out of this world. Best ever.

For me it is better than a dac. Out of sight and sounds just as good to my ears.

Using the 3 slots on sound card, 1 for dual Creative Gigaworks T40 desk speakers, 1 for same set of speakers on a side shelf, and 1 slot for other set of smaller speakers with sub-woofer, selected the 5:1 channel, works great, installed card into a free PCIe x 4 channel slot on the windows pc motherboard (the smallest slot), love the card, 5 eggs

Accessibility. Reliability. Trustworthy manufacturer. A name you know is good. Audiophile quality.

Sound quality. Great sound processing. Control and convenience.

* Quality of sound * Lots of sound options * Very good design

Works well ( and I am using Linux Mint and Cachy

+ Under 100 USD (paid 99USD on the Black Friday Deal). + Supports DSD over PCM up to DSD128. + Sound quality is on par, if not better than the Dragonfly Red DAC at less than half the price. + Gaming related features are pretty great with realtime virtual surround sound effect. + Hardware Dolby decoding included

Picked this up as a work around for a busted headphone jack in my laptop, turned out to be way better with far more options than I'd expected. It gave my laptop a more true feeling surround option for headphones. Haven't tried plugging a set of speakers into it just yet.

Got this because it's compatible with Windows 98 Upon boot, Win 98 detected it, it installed a PCE-E to PCI bridge chip driver. I had to install the driver manually after, but that's just Windows 98 being bad.

Comes with low profile bracket. Sound is great compared to onboard sound component.

Plugged right in has all the outputs I need

Quality of sound is superior to onboard, which usually is Realtek Setup is easy and quick.

Great sound, standard color codes for the sticker that comes with it and many options with the software.

Coming from years of using audio cards (PCI & USB) utilizing C-Media chips i can say this is an upgrade. The C-media were always plenty loud to drive high impudence headphones and sound quality was great but i could not tweak the EQ too much because i would get sound clipping, the amps on the chips were simply not able to handle much more headroom. This sound blaster has the head room and the volume. After installing the driver \ software from creative site you get options for bass boost, virtual surround effect, sound enhancement (works well with music and movies alike) and Equalizer. The software also includes a toggle switch between low impudence and high impudence headphones (Large driver headphone usually equal high impedance which requires more power for the sound card to push through). The sound maintains clarity even when tweaking the Equalizer although i found that out of the box i only needed a light boost at the 16k and 60hz (old ears). The mids are perfectly tuned for my taste with plenty of bite, presence and clarity. Your experience may vary depending n the headphones you use.