I skipped the GSX 1000 and moved to HT Omega Eclaro , the best card in the universe , best 3D surround , XEAR 3D Surround is the best you can get. I am using with HD800s , connected to Objective 2 AMP connected to the Front panel of the card without AMP , so I'm not double amp . the sound is loud that I needed to lower 3 notches on my AMP compare to Beyerdynamic DT990 600 ohms with Asus Xonar Phoebus or GSX 1000 , and also in some games I need to lower to almost 30% on the game volume just so I won't go deaf .. this card is so loud and the quality + surround is amazing .. if someone want to buy the GSX 1000 I am selling.
I have a friend with 9 cards, he did blind sound test in 3 games . He said hear them all one by one with Stereo settings and tell me which surround do you like . he didn't tell me which card was which and I just choose 3 out of the 9 video/sound tests . I picked on all 3 the same surround and also he said he liked the same .. so it's clearly to many ears will be perfect , because he is 3D Video/Surround fan so he wants the best out of both . he also created SuperDepth shader for reshade , makes every game to 3D like Tridef.
I will never ever buy Asus or Creative sound cards, they are the crappiest cards in the world , and you can buy better sound card in the same price, just sad , asus and creative should abandoned sound card manufacture cause the extreme price and the crap drivers/software/hardware is less than specified