On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 04:19 +0200, Emiliano Grilli wrote: > It doesn't have headphones out, but it's a professional grade > soundcard. > If your use is "consumer audio" (If I understand correctly for playing > background music only) you can do it with a lot smaller budget (sb128 > for example or a cheap used sblive, or even the one built-in on the > motherboard). There is no SBLive built in on any motherboard. The onboard devices that Creative is marketing as "SBLive! 24 bit" have NOTHING to do with a real SBLive. Completely different chipset, vastly inferior features. Lee