Can you go Pro with Creative? 

"but marred by a terrible driver package, typical of Creative." So true! And I'm one of those Xfi lovers. Mainly because I like a bit more flat sound. The Envy24 was also very good. I like the Prodigy 192. But I like every ESI card.

@@AntonsHardware What disappointed me was that Creative had good, clean drivers for their Live and Audigy series, but made a bloated mess for their superior X-Fi cards. Do we really need 3 separate modes for gaming, media, and content creation? Certainly not, but I guess they had to reallocate on-board resources for different tasks, so you lose something in every mode. Do you have the original Prodigy 192 with the red PCB? Were you able to get it to run in Win 10? I have it, but couldn't find any drivers that would work in Win 10, and the generic VIA drivers don't recognize it. The M-Audio Revolution 7.1 (same Envy24-HT chip) works perfectly, but not the 192.

You are welcome! Haha, So Crystalizer does have it's use, even today! Thanks for pointing that out to me.

I actually have the EMU 1212, ready for testing! It's been laying in a box for about 2 years now and I want to make a review about it. But I just cannot figure out how the software works and actually get some audio out of it. Windows 10 doesn't seem to agree with the card, even with modded drivers.

I finally got a pair of the Hifimann HE4XX’s for $89.99 directly from hifiman (open box but pristine and $100 off). It’s my first ever experience with Planar Magnetics and I am blown away with just how comfortable and enjoyable they have been. I am strictly a gamer, so I can’t really give a music opinion on them but for both open world games like Cyberpunk 2077/Horizon zero dawn/God of war the amount of detail I can get from lower volumes is absolutely amazing. There also great for gunshots both directional/elevation PUBG/Warzone.

50$ for Evga is nothing. I got Creative g6 for 50$ used and still its a great card i dont feel i need to upgrade cause quality of sound is enough, of course evga is better. I tryed 2 other older creative usb card like xfi 5.1 and xfi hd usb but only g6 met my requirements.

Thank you!

It is! I forgot to mention that this is a PCI card and not a PCI-E card. So most people couldn't even use it today. But if you build a retro machine, this would be great! No, awesome!

That is a truly good question. I mean truly good. The industry has become boring indeed. Let me think about this one for a while.

@@AntonsHardware to add comment from him "the hardware is stable for a while and starting to stuck, the market is now more aiming at plug and play and everyone turns to more wireless headsets"

Your question has been on my mind the last couple of days and then I remembered I've already sort of answered it. I made a video about the Audeze Mobuis and this was what was in my script: "There is a trend where a lot of hifi audio manufacturers have moved into the gaming market. Companies like Teufel, JBL and Beyerdynamic have tried to take pieces of that market. Some have succeeded, but most just have failed. The move has thus always been problematic. They are good at creating speakers and headphones for the hifi market and think that the move isn’t difficult and gamers aren’t that demanding when it comes to audio quality. So they use their knowledge about great speakers and start out. But their choice of other components and functionalities is very poor and scrape together what is cheapest." So for the industry to become more interesting, I think they need to look at what the market wants. Create high quality audio equipment for the masses and not ask outrages prices for a quality headset. Beyerdynamic did just that with the MMX300. No frills, just qulity audio, but that is an exception. For the internal soundcard market: That will become an extinct component. Everything will become external and I cannot see anything interesting coming. One thing I see happening more and more is that everything is becoming account based. I'm currently writing the script for the Creative GC7 soundcard and that has SuperXfi. You need to create an account to used this. (And I refuse!). Razer does this. Steelseries does this. Others do this. And I find this extremely irritating. I paid for the product and want to use it to it's full potential. There is no advantage for me to use accounts and the only reason manufactures want this, is so they can monitor the usage for their own marketing goals. And I find this disturbing. I feel monitored with a 1984 undertone to it. Thankfully we have the GDPR in Europe, but that doesn't stop a lot of companies to do just that! I think (or rather I hope) that in the future a lot of people agree with me and companies will stop this nonsense.

@@AntonsHardware Oh my that's a great answer dank u wel

I'm still thinking about a better answer. I feel a Q&A coming! :D

You should be able to use a floppy connector to molex. I've used it the other way around loads of times. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connector

El CS 4398 es un convertidor estéreo digital a analógico. La tarjeta tiene 8 canales. 2 para el auricular, 2 para el frente, 2 para la parte trasera, 1 para el centro y 1 para los canales del subwoofer. 4x estéreo = 8 DAC

Hola amigo yo me tuve que venderla porque siempre tuve conflicto con Windows 10 no me tomaban los 7 canales un día funcionabs excelente y otro día funcionaba solo 4 parlantes tenía que volver desconectar los parlantes dela tarjeta o sacar la tarjeta del pc volver a ponerla y así volvía a la normalidad pero no de realmente que era al final la vendí y su reciver nunca lo tomo recuerdo cuando la usaba con su Windows original de fabrica era como dioses excelente tarjeta

First thought: If so, I made a big mistake! But then I checked if there is an additional memory chip on the back. But there isn't., at least on my version (SB0550) there isn't. Do you have the same version? Thanks for your comment!

Will check it but might be a while as it's installed and used daily 🙂

Ok! Thanks! You did give me a bit of a scare there! :D