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Mirh (talkcontribs)

Add-on boards
Asus Xonar (except ROG and USB)

Auzentech (oh, and if you were struggling just to find official drivers, they are still available here)

CMedia (others)

Creative
See my post about daniel_k
You may also be interested in PAX drivers and in kX Project (the only Live! and Audigy driver with proper x64 and >2GB RAM support).
Check this if having any problem

HT Omega Claro

Onkyo Wavio SE-300PCIE

Razer Barracuda AC-1


Integrated chips
Now, things starts to be a bit messy here (and no, I'm not just talking about lower quality DACs). We may distinguish between two kind of custom drivers:

  1. Simply "unlocked" ones, that makes otherwise high-end-only features (like DDLive or DTS) available on all the products
  2. X-Fi modded. Like the last one, but you get the entire SB X-Fi MB suite too. Contrarily to popular beliefs, these actually reduce sound quality, though just ALchemy alone would be worth the effort.

Analog Devices (Conexant) SoundMAX

Gigabyte G1 motherboards
These use a real CA20K2 DSP, refer to Creative above

Realtek
Some of these drivers are claimed to address bugs in EAX accuracy

VIA Technologies

Everything else not previously covered (like SigmaTel-->IDT-->Tempo Semiconductor) might find something here


USB headset
Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000

Mirh (talkcontribs)

Mediawiki is throwing a "WikitextException" error(?) if I try to edit the previous message... so, I'll just link here this, this, this and this for realtek drivers. This and this too.