Congratulation for all the X-FI owner ... i am one myself and owning it for almost a year long..

this is indeed the best sound card i used up to date and does not fail me when comes to performance. Basically this card is meant to be paired with a THX supported speaker as normal speaker just cant squish out the best performance from it ...

i had tried to hook it with other lower end speaker and even my latest SONY headset .... but nth sound as perfect as the THX speaker.

the only down side of the sound card is the driver installation.. it get crash when doing updating sometimes ..
anyway ... happy X-FI thread being formed