Asus Xonar is the sound which i bought recently  i was using an on board 889 realtek audio chip perviously. As per the review that are given by OCC and other reviewing sites i dnt find that sort of a difference basically it depends on what genre r u listening more over from song to song that i ll cover in detail in the review . If movie being taken into consideration it outperforms various cards from creative ,auzentech. Comes with SPDIF out and thats the key to get lose-less sound production where the sound being processed at 192khz ...