I have been reading this forum for a few weeks now and have been looking into getting a sound card for my computer. Currently I am only using the onboard card and from everything that I have read it sounds like the asus essence is hard to beat.
my question is how well will it do surround sound compared to my onboard card? I know I will have to use the digital output and will be limited to the quality of my dac, which in my case isn't very good as I have a logitech z-5500.
I would say that I would be using 50/50 headphones, surround sound, so it is somewhat important that the essence shows an improvement for 5.1
For the headphones I was thinking of getting a pair of ATH-AD700, unless hd558 or something else would work better?
as I said I am new to this so any help is appreciated
