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RPGWiZaRD 
Sorry but that was the whole point of this thread, I'm wondering if I can get same kind of result when listening to music with my Dolby Headphone foobar2000 config with Titanium HD as it doesn't have analog 5.1/7.1 outputs I wonder if I can still put the card in 5.1 speaker mode like any other soundcard with analog multichannel output cards. It's a night and day difference how Dolby Headphone sounds like if the settings for my soundcards are set to stereo or 5.1 speaker setting when upmixing the stereo to 5.1 with channel mixer/dolby headphone in foobar2000. The sound quality difference from the components comes 2nd hand in this case.
That's what I'm wondering about as I have no clue how this works for soundcards without the analog multichannel outputs if they still handle it exactly the same as any other soundcard (as I assume you can still connect digitally to another device/amp/source and from there possibly connect a speaker set in multichannel mode so I suppose that's one reason the card despite lacking the 5.1 outputs may still be able to process it like one having those). I need true 5.1 support I suppose.
(I think I once heard a Xonar STX owner commenting something about channel mixer wouldn't be work with his card and would have to be the ST but may have misinterpreted that)
I know what you're saying, specially one of the purposes you want from a card :) Well, you can indeed set upmix to 5.1, despite the soundcard having 2.0/2.1. You have to keep in mind that it's not the output number that's taken in account, rather the input number, which is why it works on stereo output devices, like most external DACs and soundcards alike.
And yes, you can indeed pass sound along to another device, if you wanted to expand the number of outputs.
I find that STX situation rather odd since STX and ST differ basically on the connector they have. That could be somewhat plausible if it was driver related, but even so, that sounds odd to begin with.
