Quote Originally Posted by roivas View Post
Playing with a SB X-fi Titanium HD soundcard via spdif on a Denon device, it's pretty obvious that they degraded the sound quality.
Seems it's less likely to be hardware related then. Myself with a rather old soundcard [Yamaha YMF-724 PCI] experiencing it coupled with someone with a rather more recent X-FI amongst others, it's definitely to do with the patch. I took the liberty of testing it with other soundcards I had in back storage, another that was borrowed, and the built-in audio chipset with surround capability only to get the same results.