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<blockquote data-quote="THX" data-source="post: 805984" data-attributes="member: 553339">Creative cards **** for music.&nbsp; They resample everything to 48kHz, which is not good for your 44.1kHz music.&nbsp; Some people can&#039;t hear the difference, but it&#039;s there and if you do A/B comparos you can also hear it.&nbsp; M-Audio has DACs that stomp Creative&#039;s.&nbsp; Most just associate Creative with quality because they have really high priced cards and many features that are great for gaming.Anyway the most popular consumer M-Audio cards are the Revolution 7.1 and 5.1 (the 5.1 is newer and has more modern DACs).&nbsp; They feature the Envy24 chipset which can bypass Windows&#039; kmixer (the element that resamples everything to 48kHz) with either ASIO or kernel streaming.&nbsp; Other cards with this chipset are the Chaintech-AV710 and Auditotrak Prodigy 7.1.&nbsp; The <a href="http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Revolution51-main.html" target="_blank">Revolution 5.1</a> though may be your best bet because of its price (<a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=29-121-116&amp;amp;depa=0" target="_blank">Newegg</a>).<a href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&amp;amp;threadid=364771" target="_blank">More information</a> than you wanted but it will at least put your mind at ease wondering if Creative makes a music lover&#039;s card.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="THX, post: 805984, member: 553339"] Creative cards **** for music. They resample everything to 48kHz, which is not good for your 44.1kHz music. Some people can't hear the difference, but it's there and if you do A/B comparos you can also hear it. M-Audio has DACs that stomp Creative's. Most just associate Creative with quality because they have really high priced cards and many features that are great for [B]gaming[/B]. Anyway the most popular consumer M-Audio cards are the Revolution 7.1 and 5.1 (the 5.1 is newer and has more modern DACs). They feature the Envy24 chipset which can bypass Windows' kmixer (the element that resamples everything to 48kHz) with either ASIO or kernel streaming. Other cards with this chipset are the Chaintech-AV710 and Auditotrak Prodigy 7.1. The [URL="http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Revolution51-main.html"]Revolution 5.1[/URL] though may be your best bet because of its price ([URL="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=29-121-116&depa=0"]Newegg[/URL]). [URL="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=364771"]More information[/URL] than you wanted but it will at least put your mind at ease wondering if Creative makes a music lover's card. [/QUOTE]

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