OT: Building a new box

[Possum]

Fyron, I take vigorous exception to your comments slamming Creative.

As far as speakers, the output from my Audigy2 goes into my JVC stereo amplifier, and thence to a pair of 25-year old studio monitors with 15" woofers. I grant you that speaker technology has made huge advances since my speakers were new, but the old ways do still work

Oh, and a (hopefully) amusing anecdote about these speakers. One time back about 10 years I noticed the sound quality on the left speaker had fallen off quite a bit. Checking wires revealed nothing to blame it on. Finally I snapped the cover off, looked inside carefully, and found that a mouse had built himself/herself a nest inside. Was this rodent DEAF? Who knows...