[ahmadi3dali]

Hi
I'm going to buy a sound card, i am considering these three options and i don't know which one to choose.
My headphone is Audio-Technica ATH-M50x
I'm think about buying 
1- Creative-PCI-Express-X-Fi-Titanium-Fatal1ty-Pro (this is used)
2- Creative Sound Blaster Recon3D USB THX Dolby Sound Card (new)
3- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy PCIe RX 7.1 Sound Card (new)
You should also know in my country all these cards have almost the same price
Thanks.

 

[Montisaquadeis]

May I recoomend getting a DAC/Amp combo instead? That is if you are just playing on using it with yhour headphones. Is there a reason you want to go with the sound card over a dedicated dac/amp combo?

 

[ahmadi3dali]

2 reason
1- even if i use amp and dac, doesn't the final 3.5mm jack goes inside my computer ? i mean in the end isn't the computer sound card responsible for the decoding and ... ? 
2- my current onboard sound card is indeed broken! and i can not use my microphone, so one of the reason i'm thinking about buying a sound card is to connect and use my microphone as well.

 

[Montisaquadeis]

An external DAC/AMP combo would use USB to connect to the PC and NOT 3.5mm that would only use the AMP portion of many combos and NOT the DAC portion.

 

[ahmadi3dali]

oh, i didn't know that,
then do you know any DAC around 55 Dollar that are better than the sound cards i mentioned ? because i'm buying the sound cards around 55 dollars.

 

[Montisaquadeis]

I would wait for someone more Knowldgeable to show up as I have ZERO idea on whats good at any price point since I am just starting this journey off myself. I do know some of the basics like a DAC/AMP combo needs to be hooked up via USB and NOT 3.5mm if you want to make use of the DAC portion ortherwise you are just making use of the AMP portion of the product.