Sound Card Advice?

[jujubee]

When working, I have to listen to music. I have an Creative Audigy 2ZS, but have noticed a lot of marketing around the newer Xi-Fi series.

Has anyone noticed any real gains in system performance with these new cards? There's a lot of marketing coming from Creative and it's quite confusing...

[Neilg]

Re: Sound Card Advice?

There's a lot of marketing coming from Creative and it's quite confusing...

This is the same company that released an in-line amplifier for portable mp3 players that makes your music sound 'better than studio quality'

If it works for what you want, why upgrade?

[jujubee]

"better than studio quality" is a scary proposition.

But I'm wondering if the cards offload RAM and other technical blah blah...