EMU or X-Fi for 2 channel music?

The EMU cards have been around for a while, but the X-Fi is just out and seems to be a good card. I don't play games, all I care about is just good 2 channels playback.
This card will be used just for music playback (I will just feed the 2 channels stereo out the card to my CD in of my preamp processor with my pream-processor set to bypass the signal from the card as is)
Should I invest in an EMU 1212M or the X-Fi Elite pro card?
Thanks,

www_96KHz_tk wrote:
what you want is just a very standard pci-soundcard. This because you just want stereo, so you really don't need Emu A2zs A4 or X-FI...
goto computershop and buy the cheapest pci soundcard, it has probably more features that you want, but emu/X-Fi is too heavy for just 2 channels playing music.
i guess a AWE32 or AWE64 or Ensoniq AudioPCI or 16PCI or onboardaudio is enough for you.
even a 24bit live card has way too much, if you just want to play 16bit stereo audio sound. so a card below 20 dollar should be fine.Message Edited by www_96KHz_tk on 09-17-2005 12:25 PM
Sorry, but I don't think you understand what I want. Ok, let me be more specific.
My home theater so far includes:
An Aragon Stage One Preamp Processor combined with one Aragon 2002 amplifier (For the Front) and One Aragon 2005 feeding the Center/Surrounds and Surround back speakers.
My Speakers are all Klipsch Reference series(RF7/RC7 front/Center, RF35 surrounds, RB5 rear, and an RW-12 sub). So far, I'm using a Home Theater computer ((Audigy 2ZS) SPDIF out is connected to my Preamp processor) for DVD playback and also music(mp3/CD) playback.
For DVD playback:
I setup the audigy/DVD player to output the AC3 stream via SPDIF, and all decoding is done by my pre/pro.
For music plaback:
(All my CDs are ripped in my computer using a lossless ripper (APE)). Also sending the PCM stream over SPDIF to my pre/pro.
I'm using winamp configured with the following plugins (Mad (24bit) ->Asio (upsampled to 96KHz). While this setup sounds excellent, but I wondering if buying a sound card in the rank of the EMU or the X-Fi can help me archieve the best audio quality possible (comparable to the most expensive high end audiophile CD players). Or, do you think it is a waste, feeding such quality audio equipments with the noisy output of a sound card?
I don't want to spend a $1000 for a Lynx 2B or RME sound card, I just want the best bang for the buck, and it seems the Creative EMU line or the X-Fi may be it.
How do the DAC/ADC on the EMU cards compare to the X-Fi?
Can the DAC of the EMU, or X-Fi cards rivale my Aragon Stage one DAC? (If I have to connect the analog outs of the sond card directly to my amplifier)
You see, using an HTPC for music/movie playback is so convenient, since I have quick access to over 5000 songs right there in my computer.
Thanks,
Sorry, for my english.
Message Edited by BrokenOath on 09-17-2005 06:09 AM
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