I have been going through a lot of asus and creative sb cards and at this point i am beyond confused. Before i had creative x-fi elite pro but i recently upgraded my system which has no conventional pci slot. I only have pciex1 and pcie16 slots now   Currently i am with onboard realtek ALC892...

perfect!! i enabled SVM in console (which you called replygain) the crackling disappeared completely. although there are less highs and lows now because it seems to make all sounds sound in one volume

Hello, I have few simple questions which after googling, i could not find specifically for my hardware. I own a creative x-fi elite pro sound card and sony mdr zx-700 headphones.   If i dont enable bass boost, there is very little or no bass. After enabling bass bost, level +10 db from 1 to...