If you're still plugging your headphones and desktop speakers directily into your computer's headphone jack, but are curious what lies on the other side of the audiophile divide—consider giving this little $39 USB sound card a try.

From the vaults of Brando comes this retro glowing vacuum tube that's actually a little USB sound card.

After a frustrating few months of searching for a solution to the audio problems he encountered while ripping on-screen video with his Dell laptop, a ripten editor discovered that others were experiencing the same issue-and that the problem was not confined to Dell laptops. Apparently, the lack of a sound card Stereo…

The story of Daniel_K vs. Creative reaches a temporary conclusion as Creative reinstates the deleted forum posts by Daniel that helped other users get their sound cards working under Vista. The company did this as a result of angry forum and blog posts (some here as well), mostly all siding with Daniel.