X-Fi Xtreme Music - dual channel? headphone c

Hi,I'm looking to buy a soundcard that will enable me to play music from one channel through the speakers and music from another source via my headphones. I think I need a dual channel soundcard...or maybe 2 soundcards. Would this be suitable or would I need to get the IO case upgrade?thanksBarry

Hello,
First of all, thanks for the answer.
Yes, but when I try to click on the SuperRip button, the programm says that a component to upmix the cd is failing and I should reinstall the programm.
I have tried It about four times, deinstall the whole mediasource programm and reinstall it, but It's everytime the same.
Do you have any idea, that can solve the problem?
Sorry for my bad english, but I am German...

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the crankling sound comes eith with the bass . When a bass is realeased from the subwoofer the crankling sound comes along with the bass. please help me solve this problem
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Hello ! I am heber from argentina! bs as! federal discrict! Hey guys! you are soo cool! you help me a lot of times! but now i have to write to you becausa i dont get a solid solution to my problem. I search and see that there are some users with the same problem but i dont see a solid answer. The things that i do to try the fix the problem was clean and unninstall the drivers and soft with tools like driver sweeper etc and install the last driver but the result is the same. The only thing i found like a temporal solution when the problem happend its do the the assignement in the panel thx. I want to ask you if there is a solution, a permanent one...plz! becausa i am going to the thx panel like 30 times per day!!! i am going crazy! For more details i copy and edit a message from a user that have the same problem that i , read it plz : Ever since installing the latest drivers, 2.5. or whatever they are, I have sound and 5. support now using an X-Fi Xtreme music with Vista 64 bit (2GB), The card just randomly swaps channels on me. What I mean is, if I start from a fresh boot, I'll get all 5 speakers working in a 5. movie or video game or mp3. Shortly after though, it will swap all the sound to only the back channels and then only teh front channels, and sometimes only the center channel. Most of times it does in pairs , meaning that it wont be like front left and back right, always both back speakers and then both front speakers. Either way, it totally breaks the surround sound and it's rather annoying to hear the sound travel from front to back etc. Is there some way to fix this or anyone know the cause of this I'm about done with Creative and their crappy support for Vista. I might have to go back to on board 5. support if this keeps up. Well if you need something else! please let me know! and if you give me a hand i will be very happy ^^ . Thank you and a big hugh from argentina! PD: PLZ CREATIVE! YOUR SOUNDCARDS ARE THE BEST ! IN MY OPINION! BUT YOUR DRIVERS AND SUPPORT NEEDS MORE ATTENTION! PLZ!!! DO SOMETHING! FOR YOUR BEST!!!!!!

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. I`m facing some problems that I think are driver-related... First of all, when testing the mic-in, I get a big delay, like half a second and the sound is somewhat weird, it`s quite unlike the feed. How can I solve this problem?
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