New Xonar Essence "One"

[MrToad]

What we really need is a in depth review of how the driver behaves in both x86 and x64 OSs

Too many audio products have great specifications on paper, get stellar reviews and then at the time of actually using them one finds out that they're plagued with software issues (SCP, ridiculous latency, stuttering/aberrations using DDLive/DTS Connect, I could go on forever really...) that never get sorted out (the average driver release rate for dedicated sound cards is what? a driver revision every 6 months?)

Apologies if I sound bitter, but I had mixed experiences with sound cards under XP and very bad experiences since I moved to Win7 x64.

EDIT: And yeah, the last two cards to give me headaches were ASUS sound cards. Of course in the end it boiled down to a third party with no relationship with C-Media or ASUS to release a hacked driver to make the cards functonal.