Yep, that's pretty much all there is left to do in the audio field. You can only make audio sound so good, and for the vast majority of the public, these cards well exceed the capabilities of the speakers people are using for them. At about $260, this card isn't targetted at the mainstream consumer. Most of the features none of us will use, nor the connectors, but that's what you get with the highend. The card appears to do away with the SPDIF resampling to 48kHz and reportedly can bypass windows kmixer without the need for 3rd party hacks. Slightly higher quality audio specifications and reworked software suite is about all else that appears to be new.