I'd say decidedly not......
It's a very good recording card and designed for that purpose.
I've had the SBLive, Audigy and Audigy 2 and non of them came close the to the Terratec 6 fire when it came to recording transparency. Do your homework a little bit and you'll find it uses the same converters as the M Audio 2496 which is recognized widely as a very good DAW recording card. I own it, I like it, no problems, very versatile and great sounding card.