Question New dedicated sound card in 2019

[Faveta242]

Hello,
I was a happy user of audiotrak prodigy 7.1 hifi, till life made me upgrade to windows 10, and then i just couldnt make it work so i had to move to my onboard sound and its just bad, im clearly missing dedicated sound card on this mobo (asus p8p67 LGA 1155 with 2500k).
So i have been looking for something new like:

1. Creative Sound Blaster Z
2. Asus Xonar AE

How are those cards becasue ive never been creativ fan and I've read some good and bad reviews - especially about drivers (win 10). ?

Is there anything else you guys can recomend in the same price range to use with:

1. SENNHEISER HD380 PRO
2. Microlab solo 7c

There's 90% chance im gonna upgrade my system as soon as new Ryzen 3000 will be available and tested, but that wont make any difference I presume, unless the onboard sound inproved a lot in the last couple of years.


P.S. Sorry for lazy eanglish.

 

[faalin]

The better question is what speakers or headphones will you be using with them.

My home computer uses the Creative ZxR sound card with a pair of Yamaha HS8 monitors and HS8s subwoofer. When i take my computer to a friends house i use a pair of Corsair SP2500 2.1 speakers and there is a night and day difference between the two on the same sound card.

My brother also uses a Creative Zx soundcard and my work computer uses a Creative Sound BlasterX G5. That being said i have nothing to compare them to

 

[Faveta242]

The better question is what speakers or headphones will you be using with them.

My home computer uses the Creative ZxR sound card with a pair of Yamaha HS8 monitors and HS8s subwoofer. When i take my computer to a friends house i use a pair of Corsair SP2500 2.1 speakers and there is a night and day difference between the two on the same sound card.

My brother also uses a Creative Zx soundcard and my work computer uses a Creative Sound BlasterX G5. That being said i have nothing to compare them to

Look up, like I said MicroLab solo 7c and sennheiser hd380 pro