Hello, I have an interesting situation. My PC has a PCI SCSI card, a normal mainboard, only 1 PCI bus, so that saturates PCI bandwidth. The only option I have is to go USB, since that does not ride the PCI buss (yes i checked the block diagram). So I have purchased the maudio audiophile USB. I...

I hope this is the correct forum, but im new here so bear with me. My basic setup is an Audigy 2 connected to a pair of sennheiser hd497. The sound of the audigy becomes distorted at high levels, so it seems like I would need an amp. Does this sound probable or do you think its somthing esle...