Hi Shane, I am grateful for your reply. Awfully sorry it has taken me so long to come back to you. ** You wrote : Hi, shashi. I just yesterday, purchased the sound blaster audigy 2. It's an external sound device that definitely handles surround sound, with jacks for front, rear and even a jack for a separate sub-woofer. Plus, it has optical in and out jacks in case you have other sources with those kinds of jacks you might want to record to or from. I haven't yet gotten around to hooking it up, so can't tell you right now how well it works, but I was told it's a pretty straight-forward install process. I'm not sure how much Creative sells it for directly, but I bought mine at Fry's, a local electronics store here in Houston, and it was around 130 dollars plus tax. In fact, I can even tell you how all the controls and jacks are layed out, so if you have trouble with it, let me know.
I have bought the card too here in U. K. and paid near enough £78 for it and with the exchange rate at $1.32 approx. to a £, the price compares very favourably with what you paid for yours. If you could kindly get the info to me as an attachment or whatever, I would be very grateful. I don't know of a direct url, but you can go to www.soundblaster.com , and there should be a link there somewhere for the audigy 2. Good luck. Shane I should visit the web site sometime today and see what I can find there. Many thanks again. Cheers. Shashi. _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]