Although I don't have it here at home I had a pretty good SQ setup at school in my room. I was using a Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold (had seperate left and right RCA jacks on the card). Output was fed through Monster Cable Interlink 250's to my Marantz SR-68 stereo receiver which in turn goes through Straight Wire speaker cable to my PSB Century 500 speakers. Even at 320kbs ripped from my own CD's it wasn't quite CD quality. The only complaint that I had was the S/N ratio didn't seem to be as good overall. If only I could get most of my downloaded mp3's sounding as good as my ripped ones.
On the CD end I am using a Marantz CC-48 changer fed through Straight Wire Level 2 analog interconnects to the Marantz receiver.
When I upgraded my motherboard in Feb I had to get rid of the AWE 64 (I still have it in a box) because it was ISA and the new board didn't have any isa slots. Being fed through a SB live value the SQ has dropped, although I attribute it to the fact that I am now using hair-thin Radio Shack cable as the link between the sound card and the receiver
Pete
