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If you care about audio quality, don't get a creative sound card, but look at more "professional" sound cards.

Some examples of decent cards would be:

http://www.sekd.com/product_main/prodif_88_info.htm
http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/MED010.shtml
http://www.etcetera.co.uk/cgi/show_...u=Marian&class=
http://www.sekd.com/product_main/prodif_t_2496_info.htm
http://www.sekd.com/product_main/pplus_info.htm
http://www.sekd.com/product_main/prodif_a_info.htm

http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/AAR035.shtml
http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/AAR032.shtml
http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/...ohoontech.shtml

Terratec and M-Audio/Midiman are really nice too