

The two are different in one other area in terms of hardware - the famous (or infamous for the haters) red LED from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi is present in the Fatality Professional (and Sound Blaster Z). Update/Correction: The basic Recon3D also lacked EMI shielding the Fatality Professional iteration fixed that lack. The Recon3D was the first basic Creative sound card for internal usage to include EMI shielding as standard fare - even the X-Fi XtremeMusic and XtremeGamer - which the Recon3D replaced - lacked shielding of any sort from EMI.) (One thing we seem to have forgotten - until the Recon3D, basic Creative sound cards were sold without any shielding at all, and in the case of the PCI sound cards, that also included their midrange. Likely the shielding - EMI is problematical for audio period, and especially in computer usage. I would think that the DAC would be a major difference from the price alone - however, I have no idea what DAC the Recon3D uses.
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both TV and BD player are connected wirelessly to the household router, so they can receive streaming and (in the BD player's case) send streaming to the other connected hardware (two Windows desktops, one other HDTV, and an Android tablet) - if I can find decent headphones that can support virtualized 5.1, I'd actually prefer headphones to speakers for peace-of-mind). In my case, like my existing X-Fi XtremeGamer, the replacement will be used with more ordinary/"plebian" 5.1 speakers (or headphones) for a mix of gaming and music (not really movies any more, due to there now being a more suitable home-theater setup elsewhere in the basement with 65" OLED HDTV, BD/DVD player, BOSE CineMate 1SR speaker setup, etc.
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The Z and Zx are decidedly more suitable for the average desktop PC user (gaming, audio, etc.) - the primary reason I'm looking at the refurb Recon3D is NOT for my own PC (I'm leaning more toward the Z in OEM/white box trim for me), but for the reasons I stated in my original post - as a step-up from onboard sound or bottom-end audio for those that have no sound support whatever due to component failure. ZxR = overkill for most PC audio usage however, the same can be said for the other audio cards in the price range (both from Creative and everyone else) - I'm not beating up on the ZxR.
