Z-Series and Hardware Off-loading?

I consider that the audio hardware off-loading feature for Windows 8 truelly is a correction for sad software mixer in Windows Vista and Seven.
Hardware based enginering produce a clear superior sound in audio cards.
DirectSound hardware based soundcards (aka Live, Audigy and X-Fi series) really sound better in Windows XP, but in later versions of this OS the sound is someway artificial. It's different and less enjoyable for me.
The Z-series were built following Windows 7's standars. Will they be truelly capable for hardware off-loading?
OR
Do we have to wait a new Sound Blaster generation again?
A driver update for PCI-XFI and Titatium is posible or convenient?
Sorry for my english.

Originally Posted by Thalyn
To be fair, though, my testing suggests CL doesn't need hardware offloading anymore.
Admittedly my tests were not exactly the most typical (an i7 2600K running at 4.2GHz, comparing a PCI X-Fi to a PCIe Recon3D - though I did drop the i7 to a single "core" out of curiosity), I found that the Recon performed about the same as the X-Fi at low voice counts, then proceeded to open up a 20% lead by 60 voices (3DMark 03 doesn't go higher than that). Unfortunately I wasn't able to compare it to a "pure" software setup as not-loading ALchemy caused the tests to fail entirely due to the lack of hardware audio.
That's not to say that hardware offloading couldn't be faster still, but the comparison to older hardware (X-Fis) is not favourable to the idea.
I don't believe that testing in Windows Vista, Seven o Windows 8.0 could really give us faithfull results, simply because they don't have true hardware acceleration. Recond3d or Z Series of audio cards are not slower or faster than its predecesors or even other trademarks because the mix is made in software all the time.
When you see those Recon3D and Z-Series boards they look "empty", sad, a lack of elements, electronic elements, because they don't need them. The Quad-Core audio processor that those cards only accelerates the THX Studio something software.
Swapping channels is a common error on those three generations: X-FI, Recon3D and Z. I need an explanation. I believe that is a full software error.

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