It's pretty flawed, the driver support is really bad, and on most motherboards it's run through a crappy Realtek ac97 chip for the physical connections anyway, which just degrads quality even more.

It saved me almost 100$ long live soundstorm. Btw I use digital out which is not crappy at all, between the quality of an Audigy and an Audigy 2. That analog out is somewhat crappy.. about the quality of a SB live.. :) DD owns!

You mean I have to dig in my closet for my crappy sounding Audigy 1? Nooo... Soundstorm is the best integrated sound chip I have seen yet. Creative used to be king, they could be flawless if they do more in hardware and quit putting so much useless crap with their packages.