I have used Creative cards for many years successfully although they tended to be geared for the Games market. Earlier this year, I upgraded my DAW and installed a new Creative X-Fi Titanium Sound Card. This is supposed to have a specialist music section, which I find to be complicated and not offering much support. In addition, the MME drivers have all sorts of problems like clicks and crackles during Play and adding artifacts during Record. Fortunately, the ASIO driver works perfectly and I now use this for all purposes. Creative, although flooded with complaints seem to believe that the problems all lie with the user.

Drivers apart, the sound quality is excellent.