Creative Labs stuff is really bad. Soundcards at a whole are a joke, that is not how you get good audio. The X7 is also really bad, it sounds bad and measures poorly. When a PC review site says it sounds meh, you know it is really bad since they don't know anything about audio. Sabaj is a really low end Chinese brand that make a lot of crappy stuff that doesn't measure or sound good at all. All of the stuff you recced was just junk.