You going from the line out or the headphone rca output? I prefer an external knob to adjust volume as opposed to adjusting the volume in the os. So I'd set the os volume to 100 and leave it, then adjust with the knob.

Will the card being from Japan and me/all my parts and os being us be an issue?

I'm looking into getting a STX with daughter board for my next computer build. The only ones I can find are on ebay and are from Japan. Will there be any issue with getting one of those? I plan to feed the 8 channels into a Marantz 6013 going to polk monitor 70s, 50s, and 40 speakers for movies...

Hey everybody, so I bought a pair of turtle beach HPA2's for use of gaming and they are good but the amp that cam with isnt, it sometimes makes a squelching sound and sometimes creates a high pitched sound. So I could get a replacement from them(Id have to pay for it because I bought them from...