While it is easy to say that Creative owns the gaming sound card market today, they don’t own everything. What happens when a large company has a market segment all to itself is that innovation slows and there is little drive for new products. This is not a maturation of the market, it is a sterilization of the market. What Auzentech has produced is a sound card that offers new features to a different market, the HTPC, as well as a little sum-sum for the casual gamer, and the music afficionado.

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