Any card better than Creative's new X-Fi for listening?

[Jedman]

Just looking to hook up a computer in the "den" area to watch DVDs on. Looking for good sound card recommendations for this application...
Anything beat Creative's new X-Fi cards for watching DVDs / listening to music on surround speakers?
Thanks,
Jed

 

[Mindset]

kinda like the audigy line cause it was THX certified. the new x-fi's are not. For gaming/dvd/music, I would use it since it's basically the only good sounding consumer sound card. The Turtle beach isn't that good, nor the rest of the cheap sound cards out there.

 

[Kiauma]

In terms of value and performance, it is hard to top the Audigy 2ZS barebones:

"http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2164702&CatId=107"

It has surround sound 7.1, 108 db noise figure, a huge host of sound apps, and a firewire port. I LOVE mine.

 

[Jedman]

Thanks for that info. I've been out of the computer world a while...

What I'm trying to decide now is if I want to get a fancy soundcard for this computer and play music through 5.1-7.1 surround sound computer speakers...

Or if I should get a medium quality soundcard and just run a line out to a home theatre system.

Jed