Best sound card s for Windows 7Pro

agree on the ESI Juli@. You want the non-PCI express card.

Zd, i have the idea digital is best to allow connection to to quality DAC for best sound..

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Zd, i have the idea digital is best to allow connection to to quality DAC for best sound.."

I agree. If you are going to use a separate DAC, there's no reason to get a sound card. All you need is a DAC with a USB input and is compatible with your OS.

I totally disagree. USB is the worse interface you can use. The sound card with spdif out will be much better. I have tried. not even close (unless you spend $1600 for the Berkeley USB to spdif converter).

Zd and Cerrot. Now I'm confused. To let you know my slowness on technical moves I'm stilling listening,quite happily, to my Lexican RT 20 (power conditioning and isolation provided mind bending improvement on audio; and the video of DVD's equals that of my newer Sony Blu Ray upconverting DVD's). I feel lucky to have bought when they were discontinued and price slashed. Techie I'm not. Hardly interested really; just want great music. Cheers.