Initially I was looking for a Dolby Digital Live soundcard to output game audio to an external processor for virtual Dolby Headphone processing. Most Asus and Creative soundcards already support DDL. However, Asus cards also directly output Dolby Headphone and Creative cards output CMSS-3D. I...

Like most PC's I already have multi-channel analog out, but was thinking I might invest in a HDMI output to handle multi-channel audio out from the PC. My question is are there any advantages in investing in multi-channel audio out via HDMI considering I can already output multi-channel through...

I am in need of a soundcard capable of Dolby Digital Live (DDL) and have come up with many options such as the older Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro and Asus Xonar U1or U3 to the newer Asus Xonar U7 and Sound Blaster Z.   Despite comparing specs on these cards there is still one factor...