Creative or ASUS?

[supremor]

Yes its another sound card thread!

Basically here's the deal, I was forced to retire my old original X-Fi XtremeMusic PCI card recently and currently using VIA onboard sound (dreadful as you might expect).
I'm looking for a new PCIE sound card, main use will be gaming but also a fair bit of movies/tv shows and ill be using almost exclusively my fairly humble set of Sennheirser HD555's.
Basically I really liked Creative's 3d positional audio (CMSS-3D) it was really good and after using it for years playing games without it is just plain weird for me. I saw ASUS cards also have some sort of 3d positional audio (Dolby Headphone was it?) and was wondering which is considered better?

The cards I was looking at are the Creative Titanium and the Titanium Fatal1ty (cant get the Titanum HD) tho the Fatal1ty doesn't seem to be worth the extra cost for me.
On the ASUS side it would be the D2X/STX cards each of which is slightly more expensive than its respective Creative counterpart.
From what I understand the ASUS cards are somewhat better for multimedia whereas Creative do better at gaming which I guess is more important to me and I probably wont notice a quality difference with my HD555's anyway... as for drivers I never had an issue with W7 X64 and Creative drivers with my PCI X-Fi so I cant complain about that.
This brings me back to my main question really, which of the 2 brands sports the superior 3d positional audio?

 

[Maximilian]

I would get the xonar DX, its essentially a D2X but cheaper, the D2X has higher quality DAC's but thats about it.

Creative are worthless for gaming these days as no games support their cards. Sound cards in general dont help with gaming anymore, i would get the asus and avoid the headache of creative drivers. Ive got an x-fi titanium HD here and there is no way to switch between speakers and headset.... yeah... you have to unplug the thing, crawl to the back of your PC and unplug one or the other. Or use the front audio ports which are always unshielded on cases and usually have processor whine. Great stuff creative.

So to sum up theres nothing better than your current xtrememusic from the creative camp which is why i say asus is worth a shot. I severely doubt there are any differences between creatives original implementation of CMSS3D on the xtrememusic vs anything newer.