Sometimes, old is way better! As a speaker builder, I've often found that "new technology" is just a rehash of old technology, albeit with better design in terms of the manufacturers process. In my experience, "old" has not much to do with quality. The "old" card will do much better sound if you get it to work! The X-Fi, at its release, offered some of the most powerful mixing capabilities available, making it a powerful entry-level card for home musicians." -from wikipedia This release also included the 24-bit crystallizer, which is intended to pronounce percussion elements by placing some emphasis on low and high pitched parts of the sound. " The X-Fi uses EAX 5.0 which supports up to 128 3D-positioned voices with up to four effects applied to each. They are only missing support for "up to 128 positioned 3D voices" though this seems largely useless?
The audigy series, especially the audigy 2 and better, dont seem that far behind the newer X-fi cards in terms of audio quality and signal to noise. I dont see any reason these cards should not still sound great, especially compared to onboard which is only slightly better than no sound. I disagree as well, 7 years in audio technology is not that long. No way will 7 year old card beat new technology. Though the newer sound cards seem to make sound more realistic. Doubt a card that old will amount to anything.
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