yesterday i just installed a turtle beach santa cruz sound card. it's awsome and only 75.00. This company has been around for years making sound cards, midi cards, midi software etc. for the pro audio market. I think the quality is better than creative labs and has way more features for the money. All analog to digital converters are 20 bit (creative labs are 16) it supports 6 speakers, has joy stick/midi input, digital spdif external and internal. cd, tad and aux interal ins and outs. it has a dagheterboard riser for optional synthesizer, plus a riser for future upgrades and a mic input for condensor and dynamic mics with phantom powerand a headphone jack. also it comes with pretty cool software. it rocks!