Yesterday, after a long wait my Asus Xonar D2X finally arrived. I haven't done much testing yet but I like the sound of it The sound from playing movies (DTS 5.1) is way better than the X-Fi. With games I think I am hearing more details and more crisp sound. Music sounds great but different than the X-Fi. I don't mean in a bad way, just different. The only let down for me was the "ASUS Audio Center", I think creative is years ahead in this department (why can't they make a good driver too? ) Is it that you can't edit any of the dsp profiles (music, movies, games..), or I am doing something wrong ? I have some more questions about the "ASUS Audio Center" but now I am at work and I can't remember exactly what I wanted to ask without looking at the software. So I will ask later. More later.