Creative has made a DAC/headphone amp that’s quite good for the price, but you should ignore its Windows/Mac software-driven special features unless you have a lot of patience and persistence.

The Sound Blaster X7 delivers an incredibly strong price/performance ratio. If it had HDMI in and out (and the ability to decode Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio) it would be darn near perfect.

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Sound is one of the most underappreciated aspects of just about any form of media. While most people rattle on for days about visuals, framerates, resolution, and other buzzwords (whether they ...