What Sound Card Should I Buy????

[jsowder18]

I am currently getting the Logitech Z-5500's and all I have is crappy integrated sound, I know I want to buy a new sound card, but I'm not sure how much to spend. Do I need S/PDIF out or Digital or both. I mainly play music, and will now watch movies once I get these speakers, no gaming though, sorry that upsets a lot of you, lol. I know these speakers have a digital decoder but i'm not really sure what that means, any advice/help anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.

 

[TheMajor]

I heard the Fortissimmo's are the best, but others say the Audigy's are good. Dunno.

 

[EricB]

sound blaster. major I'm catching up on you. only 4800 more posts to go

 

[TheMajor]

haha, good luck. You might have a chance cause I am very busy these days.

 

[EricB]

LOL

 

[tribalsun]

I would suggest the Soundblaster Live 24 Bit from Creative Labs. It's fairly priced at around 35 bucks ( I found 1 at my local Best Buy for 28 bucks ) and sounds great, comes with alot of nice tools also.

Soundblaster Live 24 Bit

 

[mckc86]

Sound Blaster Audigy

 

[CrazyRomanian]

Buy an Audigy 2 NX (ive got one and its awesome) or the new Audigy 2 ZS sounds pretty nice too. The only problem tho is that neither of these have Linux driver support. The NX is ~AU$200 and the ZS is ~AU$400, but i reckon its worth shovelling out the mad wong $$$

 

[majistic]

Looks good. I want to get a sound card also.