James Perrett wrote:

Be careful with the Creative cards - many of them resample everything
to 48kHz internally. The cards from their semi-professional arm, EMU
are fine.

The MP3+ (external USB card) doesn't... but the EAX crap in the drivers
does mangle the bitstream a little.

On the other hand I did a bit of digging and picked up a USB soundcard
(SPDIF and analogue output only, no inputs) for about £16 from Maplin.
This does appear to have bit-perfect output provided you set all the
sliders to max on the Windows mixer. Certainly sounds better than the
MP3+ did.

Figured for 16 quid it was worth a gamble - which appears to have paid off.

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