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Card best for interfacing with receiver?

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Argher

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I'm moving from a PC speaker setup (the creative megaworks 6.1) to a real, full-blown, multi-thousand dollar home theater setup (yes, insert drools here :D). As a result, I want to output all my sound to those speakers. My PC is quiet enough to run as a HTPC anyway, so that's fine.

The question is - Which card has the best pathway for analog outs to the receiver? I would use a cheap SPDIF card a la the Chaintech, but I'm concerned with positional sound during gaming / uncompressed format DVD movies as well.

Any ideas?

Also, I have heard that a PC is a great transfer to a receiver, better than most standalone DVD players. What are your thoughts, oh perhaps-pseudo-audiophiles residing herein?
 
If you decide on a SoundBlaster solution, only get a X-Fi, since that is the only driver set that has the option for proper LFE output with Bass Management. (+15dB gain) It's an old problem on Audigys.
 
Why don't you try something like the BlueGears cards?
http://www.bluegears.com/

They have Dolby Digital Live and are really good in games too, delivering the Positional audio in the DD Live.

I would wait (like I am doing) for the DTS version though, they are to be out in jan to march 2006.

Regards.
 
as Chastity said, if your concern is analog output, then x-fi. there's no other decision. if you are gonig to game. x-fi it is.
 
Santroph, thanks for the link to BlueGears. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about them, heard of them years ago. I wonder how much the new card will be?
 
If it's anything like the Mystique Gold 7.1, then it should be a gamer's disappointment, like it was for me.
 
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