To be honest, I haven’t thought about a dedicated sound card in quite a while. On-board audio solutions have really improved in the last 10 or more years; so much so that I don’t even have another soundcard in my inventory of parts to use if I wanted or needed to. When I built my first PC back in 2002, you HAD to get an add-in sound card if you wanted any semblance of quality audio, which led me to buying a Creative Sound Blaster card to go with my Athlon XP system. Well, here we are 20 years later, and Creative is still a major player in the PC audio game, and in this review we are taking at look at the Sound Blaster X4, a 7.1 external USB DAC and amp sound card. We have looked at the X3 previously, so follow along as we take a look at the latest version of this line of audio devices from Creative.