Stereolink 1200 has Fabulous Sound, USB Hiccups (Score 1)

The StereoLink sounds fantastic: good DACs, free of RF and power supply/hd noise. It also has an excellent headphone amplifier capable of driving difficult loads (high impedance phones like Sennheiser HD580, Etymotic 4S). Unfortunately, it suffers from the same thing USB audio has always suffered from: occasional stuttering and hiccuping due to disk access. Stereolink knows this is a problem, and they do their best to help, but hardware makers need to get their acts together with microsoft to provide better support for USB sound. Hopefully now that Creative is relying on USB audio, something will be done about it.

USB problems aside, Extigy is going to be great for standalone 5.1 decoding use with Xbox or PS2.