I got mine for $85 shipped and it arrived in about 6 days. Installed without any problem. I upgraded from a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and I can truly hear a distince difference in the quality and range of sound produced. I have a set up Klipsch GMX Promeida 5.1 speakers and everything works perfectly. I agree about the amount of control over volume and effects is great. All the connnections I used tested fine, analog, digital coax, optical. I didn't much care for the 7.1 emulation feature it offers but I didn't try that in any games. Have to agree that this is a great sound card. I need a little more testing in games to see how it fares with that. But so far with movies and music is is the best I've used.