Audigy 2 ZS

I only did this cos my old speakers broke. Seriously.
A long time ago (in a galaxy just here), my good old (and bloody expensive) inspire digital 5700 speakers (creative) decided to pack in. The decoder would suddenly stop outputting to a random channel. I spoke to creative and instead of repairing it, they sent me a whole new set of speakers! Being me, I decided to set those up in the living room (with the xbox/gamecube/dvd) and leave the broken set with the pc. Cheap I know....
Anyhow, finally the broken set starting getting on my tits. Random channels were turning off more than ever, and it was getting very annoying. I decided to invest in a medium-priced set of speakers. After extensive (well a few minutes) research I decided on creative's inspire t7900 which are a set of 7.1 analogue speakers that do not feature a decoder (just adding a decoder costs loads, and since they're only for the pc which can do it's own decoding, it'd be useless to buy one). To make things complete I invested in a soundblaster audigy 2 ZS (big creative fan here!). To be honest with you, there's absolutely NO DIFFERENCE in terms of sound quality or anything! Half life 2 pretends to support 7.1 but decides to ignore the side speakers, while anything 5.1 has it's rear speakers duplicated on the side ones. I have yet to find anything that truely supports 7.1
But there you go, as you've noticed recently I've gone berserk shopping wise (apple powerbook, ipod, psp, nintendo ds, speakers, sound blaster) but this only happens once in a while then I'll go numb again. Oh and I don't really have a life so I might as well waste it in front of this sweet radiation :)

Good Delicious and all that!