hello again! the p16v (hw:0,4 bzw plughw:0,4) of my audigy 2 zs plpro plays quite fine now for me with aplay -D plughw:0,4 file although im not completly understanding what is happening, the stream really seems to go through the p16v only,meaning no eq or 3d stuff is applied. but the 24/96 sound is fantastic! i cant wait to have more musik in those pretty rates. p16v channels are those HDchannels in the mixertabs,front ones being channel 1+2 of 8 ,analog, use spdif for digital out. those are obviously,and checked also =),the single ones working with 192khz playback (front). although i have no 192khz files,and am not yet able to record them,but an upsampling does just fine. /proc/asound/Audigy2/pcm4p (which would be the p16v`s playback) shows the rates accordingly,and the change between 16/48 bzw 16/44 audio and 24/96 audio is easily audible. of course there is no audible difference between 24/96 and the 24/192 upsampling for me.i listened to some nice jazz through my small bose system connected to the a2zspp through a fine amp easy capable of the 96khz,although im not sure about the 192khz.all wired with thick oehlb. cabels. fine so far,but here the problem: there are only 2 capture channels,although the card is supposed to work with 8 at 24/96. and does somebody know how to set up even those? there are only 2 hdcapure mixer-tabs: HD Capture channel : 0-3 HD Capture source : cdif,spdif,srcmulti,src48,i2s,fx,ac97 which suggest 4 channels in my eyes.well 4 isnt 8 but more then 2...as you surely know.well i guessed srcmulti would be the one to go to record from different analog line-ins,but nothing.err... has somebody maybe already done some multichannel recordings with this card? help,maybe now,would be quite...helpfull. sonicx