Quote Originally Posted by ImaNihilist View Post
There is no difference. We are talking about video games. The soundtracks are 256Kbps VBR on a good day. The sound effects are just sound effects. The sound of a sniper rifle isn't going to sound any different.

It's a wonder that Creative is still making sound cards. A of SNR 124dB is pretty irrelevant as a statistics. The Sound Blaster brand is a joke designed to sell a dead product to chumps. For a while it still made sense after the dedicated sound card was made redundant, because the I/O was still useful… but now there are better I/O solutions as well. Almost all I/O has gone external. They started putting things like an amp on the sound card because they had to find someway to continue to sell a 5 year old worthless product.
I guess you should go and ask Asus and Gigabyte , why are they taking the same route , adding 118dB SNR sound onboard , including the 600 ohm just one year after Creative and Asus introduced similar sound cards.

it is not a 5 years old worthless product. and you can hear the difference. you are talking technical ... we are talking from Experience ... and I dont think the motherboard makers are stupid to make their high end motherboards $100 more expensive just for worthless product as you have said.

maybe you never tried a really expensive headphones to feel the difference .... I dont know..