"You'd need one hell of a great receiver to have it's DACs beat the Revo. Hate to sound like a broken record but the Revo replaced a Music Hall CD25 in my system and I love it." Solude, you have any specific reciever in mind? What would beat the Revo? Thanks.

I'm leaning more towards the revolution, but I am thinking of adding a reciever in the future and using as a home theater system, so would it matter which one I got? Would the spdif out produce different quality in each sound card, or would it result in the same sound? Thanks! Suke

Which do you recommend? The Audigy 2 is THX certified, if that really means anything, could be that m-audio never paid for certification, while M-Audio has 7.1, but its not even 7.1 dolby digital, I think its just 2 extra speakers. Other difference I noticed was 106 dB for the Audigy 2...

I think HTPC is the best way to go for a home theater, especially if you have a kick ass video card w/ dvi and an awesome sound card. Imagine it, playing doom3 or your favorite game on a big screen!

I didn't know Koss was still selling these, they were hard for me to find before, ebay had them selling at high prices.

Wow that size difference is incredible, I'd go w/ the Sonica just for that.

Extigy, is that the USB sound card ? I think my brother has it. He likes it because of remote control and external audio control and it has digital out, which he uses for listening to movies in surround sound when he hooks it up to a reciever or 5.1 speakers. He likes the sound, but then again...

I heard DTS was good but I never actually experienced it for myself...yet. I have a question about DTS though, a little off topic, but is it only offered in 5.1? I heard DD was going to do more than 5.1, like 7.1 maybe even 9.1? Is DTS working on this also?

That wasn't stupid, but this may be, I'm not an expert or anything, but what if you were to split the headphone out with a y-cable and then use another y-cable w/ male connectors to hook up to the first y-cable and hook up the remaining end up w/ your headphones. Now that I think about it...

Oh ok you had me worried there for a sec haha

What is hazardous to your ear health? And how so?

Yea I agree with the muting, my headphones were really hissing until I muted the CD-player and aux.

Whenever I go on flights, I use my sony CD180s. Listening to them right now with my brother in the next room with the tv on, I can hear the tv, but faintly in the background. In flight, I did hear the plane engines, but with my ear plugs on, and the cd180s on over them, all I heard was my...

True if I had the money I would buy better headphones, but for now I just asked because I had the opportunity to borrow it and was wondering if it would do anything really. But the SC does seem popular, maybe its jack is already good enough. Suke

I am using sonyh mdr-cd180s (I know I know, they suck, I will be getting better ones hopefully), turtle beach santa cruz sound card, and vsx-d411 pioneer reciever.