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I used the coax out. Given all you want is straight passthru, it worked well. Note the GTXP will do 6.1 decoding, you need the proper driver and player for this though.

If all you want is the optical or coax out, you need not get the GTXP. I will say your price of 230 is pretty high (that is what I paid over a year ago). I see it discounted to around 130 these days.

mdl.

I just bought a Cmedia 8738 chipset based soundcard for $20 from ebay. search for chaintech/zoltrix/audioexcel. Installed the latest drivers from cmedia and I get 44.1KHz mp3 and 48KHz DTS/DD on Windows 2000. Am pleasantly surprised. The guys at avsforum insist that jitter in the cheaper cards makes it sound worse, but when I get a pair of golden ears I'll buy the 2496.

MDL,

where have you seen it for 130$ CAD?
If I see it at that price, i'll buy it immediately!

thanks.

The dreaded future shop near me was selling them for $129.

mdl