1820M or Xi-Fi Elite Pro with Home Studio XL - Please advise

Setting up a system
Already have Home studio XL
Could you give me some thoughts on the 1820M or Xi-Fi Elite Pro?
The good the bad and the ugly.
Seems like there is a lot of bad and ugly out there

If you look a little bit around in the forum, you will find the answer very fast.
At the moment all the creative X-Fi cards are only able to deli'ver stereo sound through coax and optical cable. The only way you will get DTS is, if you use the digital sound from DVDs via PowerDVD, but that 5. sound comes not from the soundcard, it is directly from the dvd dri've and will just your soundcard as a walkthrough.
The only soundcard I've seen atm, that is able to handle 5. digital sound with X-Fi features is the "Auzentech X-Fi Prelude". I couldn't test the soundcard yet, but will buy it probably very soon.

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