If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.

I have decided to keep my Sound Blaster Live! Value and add a Hoontech adapter card that has digital/optical outputs.<P>Here is my confusion. I want to hook my sound card up to my Yamaha RX-V995 ...