If your hearing is so bad that you can't tell a soundcard sounds amazing you should save your money for hearing aids and leave the sound cards for the people who appreciate sound quality I have heard all of CL line up, non compare to the XM for sheer quality. The E-Pro sound very nice but the ones I heard have been modded aswell so they sound better then stock cards. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the sound of the XM. X-Fi's are being modded all the time now aswell.
Then please take your own advice? Yes and I know about the modded X-Fi's and the difference is I'm not using any Dinky assed Computer Multimedia speakers..
Even my *junk* as you called it kicks the shit out of the best Logitech multimedia crap-o-la computer speakers.