Wouldn't an external card be a better bet? I feel like something along the lines of Sound Blaster X-FI HD would be both, more resilient to interference and more universal in the sense that it could at some point in case of an upgrade be reused as a laptop sound card replacement. Though I...

  Is it actually possible to separate the rear and headphone out ports on the computer with fiio e10? As I don't see any drivers for the unit I would guess that the unit attached would show up as a single audio device and even if plugging in the headphones wouldn't mute the sound from the...

Up till now I used an integrated sound card on my computer connecting a set of speakers to the rear of the computer and headset to the front. Then splitting out the front and back into two separate audio sources and selecting front audio (headset) for applications like used for communication and...