Wow. A lot of good advice on sound cards. When I was looking for a good card about a year ago, I decided on the creative x-fi stream music. Unfortunately it was discontinued at about $60 in the US. and I don't think creative ever came up with anything as good to take its place. If you have an older PC WITH WINDOWS 98 OR ME, I have a high end card from turtle beach that's the best I've ever heard with plenty of mic gain and a separate line in jack not found on most cards today. You can contact me off list if your interested but for a newer PC, I think the stream music card would be a good choice if you could still find it. It does have drivers for windows 7. The settings in it are also accessible with Jaws if you use that. Take care, Joe. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org