I have the Asus N61JQ-X1 Notebook PC and the Creative Gigaworks T20 Series II speakers. I don't listen or rip my cds to lossy compressed music (MP3s, WMA, AAC, etc), but I usually rip my cds to WMA Lossless to my external hard drive and listen to them with WMP 12. I don't like the Realtek Audio DAC with SRS software in my notebook. I would like some recommendations on which external sound card is good.