Title: amazing sound, but only install the driver
Product review: This card produces rather amazing sound quality, especially compared to on-board sound (e.g. Asus MB). The clarity of sound is startling. You'll hear your ripped CDs with a quality you never heard before (assuming you didn't dumb down the sound by using MP3).For optimal music sound, without junking up your system with Creative's software junk, just install the drivers, choosing Entertainment mode during install. Very simple.I've got the computer sound output to a Yamaha MCR-E810 2-speaker stereo system (around $400). Best sound I've ever had, and I'm a geezer, so have been through a lot of sound systems in my day. I listen to a mixture of music, including much classical along with popular & jazz.I'm using Zune software, with CDs ripped to lossless quality. Quite satisfied with the setup, other than nitpicks about the Zune software (which is still better than iTunes).
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