We kind of saw it comming in Quebec, and it was one of the main reason we (and I) sacrificed the Bloc Quebecois in favour of the NPD, so we could actually have a strong government that represent the overall values of the canadian people. The result of these tactics is that separatism is now seen no more as an economic perspective than a difference in belonging. Separatist parties have seen a recent raise in interest here province-wise. As recently reported on television (Radio-Canada), it was said by journalist, that at one point in canada elections where re-done eleven times. It will be interesting to see what kind of argument Harper's party come up to put aside the law. Remember that in every other sphere of life, if you get caught cheating there are consequences. If the values put forward by this party are that they are above the law, then I guess we should do the same, remember caporal Lortie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Lortie) It can happen again !

It should not be hard to get northern people to apply :)

I have bought the card last week, i have plugged it in today in no time, it take's up a psu cable (just as a hard drive) as a nice blue logo (nice addition to modded case) first thing i did was to hook up my jackson guitar in it to test one of the 2 preamplified 1/4 Jack that comes with it. The DAC makes its job well and the noise reduction is very good. Too good in fact that i had some trouble hooking up the hardware effects at first (before finding where to put on effects in the Xfi's pannel) , the noise reduction still give's me a hard time, it works too well. In a 30 minute trial to get to know the main reason to buy the Elite : Does the external module works to record guitar, voice and Bass -> Definitly. It comes packaged with Cubase and WaveLab and Ampli-tube, so everything is there to get started to rock, and do not forget that you can have 8 simultaneous Hardware effects that feels just like any pedal effects would (thrust me i heard worst distortion...metal zone anyone ?) So i definitly recommend this to home musicians who are gamers and want to be able to do anything, not just be able to record in a specialized software like protool cards without 3d accel. I bought the card directly on the site for 399$ US. Its not such a high price, because you would normally have to buy an ASIO sound card and a mini-console with 4 amplified I/O to have the same result.

My worst fears where that in the past Creative was well known to have horrendrous drivers and bloated install, this one has a package wich only install the tools for audio creation if you asks for it. Remember also that the elite pro comes with 64 MB of onboard RAM, wich frees up a bit of the main RAM for audio processing, tough I do not know if it makes a big difference.

For those that say its the speakers that makes a difference, try listening to AC98 onboard for 2-3 years, even with good speakers, you can still ear noise when nothing plays at high volume. Same speaker with this card feels like heaven.

A satisfied customer