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The soundblaster X-Fi music pci cards are without a doubt the best soundcards creative have ever made, even now in 2016 nothing touches the sheer clarity, crisp and full bodied sound this card produces. 2004/5 was the golden era for creative audio. I have tried this card with my high end creative iTrigue speakers, the sound is so pristine and clear it just draws you in, however where this card really shines is when its connected to my pioneer amplifier with my wharfedale diamond 9.1 stereo speakers, the sound is so rich, punchy and full bodied im not ashamed to say listening to kraftwerks "planet of visions" live i had a tear in my eye, thats how good it sounds. The overall sound quality this card produces on my wharfedales is up there with the best, there is no humming/hissing/distortion or motherboard interferance anywhere, you will get the best out of this card with hd audio like 48 or 96khz wav or flac although mp3 sounds ok, compressed audio is inferior to uncompressed audio especially on the rear channels. The software suite is a pleasure to use and i have an xp pro raid 0 install on a separate hard disk just for music listening, however the card is supported by windows7 fully, it works on windows 10 also but the sound apps don't, im not too fussed about this as xp is my choice for music anyway, im not too keen on windows 10 its too bloated for my liking. The rear ports are 9k gold plated for a top notch connection and the card is also ASIO 2.0 compliant, so for music making this is the card to go for. I give this card 10/10 it is a brilliant piece of engineering.Read full review
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Works great, sounds great and sounds really good with my Dell Vostro 200. Don't have to have the volume slider all the way up anymore! I have higher impedence headphones so that's why it was so quiet before. Anyway it works great now with this!
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Crystal clear and very well balanced sound. Works perfect with 5.1 speakers.
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Works well. No problems with either installing or use.
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Excellent Product
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