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The Tek video message seemed to be that sound cards are overkill for gaming and inferior for more intensive uses. The problem was that it offered only a DAC and amp seller's views, giving us the "unbiased" truth and unsurprisingly it was received as a "sound cards are inferior" declaration. Having an intro clip of them burying a sound card like a useless piece of garbage set the stage.
The Mayflower guest has a right to his opinion, but he has to understand his specific employment puts the motivation for his opinion and Tek's choice of sources into question. They could have chosen an expert with no vested interest in either solution apart from obtaining the best value. It would be like Linus interviewing an AMD rep about which is better-AMD or Intel, and passing it off as information all viewers should trust, treat as the unbiased truth, and act on. Benchmarking multiple audio solutions and presenting hard data would be received as more credible and might have helped people more.
It may seem much easier to make a decision when you don't confuse things with potentially conflicting opinions from multiple sources, but we've seen how that creates willfully ignorant consumers and viewers.  Maybe Tek chould interview JJ from Asus and let the viewers use their own judgement to determine which is best for them.

I remember the morning the Karoo Ice Age hit. I was planning on taking a trip to the DMV to get my motorcycle license renewed. After eating breakfast and checking my email, I headed outside. Boy that was a shocker!! Fuckin' ice and snow everywhere. I usually get severe weather alerts on my iPhone, but the spreading of the polar caps must have knocked out my service. Once cell phone service get's knocked out, you know it probably a lost cause trying to anything done a work. So I stayed home for the next 100 million years playing Minecraft. When it was finally warm enough to go outside, I tried starting my car, but the increased Oxygen levels in the atmosphere must have fouled my spark plugs and the car wouldn't even turn over. I probably wouldn't have gotten far anyways since the wheel hadn't even been invented. I would have taken pics and posted them to facebook, but those hadn't been invented either.
The moral of the story is be grateful you only had to deal with a minor earth quake.