04-14-2018, 06:07 PM
$36 - Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX but verify the PC has a PCIe slot free.
Looks like it checks most of the boxes, low noise headphone amplifier and does 24 bit at 192 KHz to work with SACD and 5.1 DVD audio.
Edit: over 11% one star reviews (usually my cutoff for Amazon). Complaint of not having an EQ interface for outputs, only inputs. It might be more for people streaming podcasts/games than for an audio buff.
Looks like it checks most of the boxes, low noise headphone amplifier and does 24 bit at 192 KHz to work with SACD and 5.1 DVD audio.
Edit: over 11% one star reviews (usually my cutoff for Amazon). Complaint of not having an EQ interface for outputs, only inputs. It might be more for people streaming podcasts/games than for an audio buff.