I've seen, er, heard a Hercules Game Theatre XP in action. I'm somewhat impressed. I'm starting to wonder if we've hit a ceiling on how high audio can go. I'd love to see audio shoot up the way video has, but I just really don't see it happenning. Right now, it seems like everyone is just rehashing the same things that has already been done.
Good things are in the works, namely with invidia and sensaura.
ZoomFX and macroFX and DD encoding. I hope A3D comes back alive from nvidia since they hired most of the Aureal gang when they went bankrupt after Creative Labs sued them. However, what I am more concerned for is the state of their drivers. Windows 2000 is the future, and winXP is supposed to come out in october if I recall, and need drivers drivers drivers. I'd been thinking about going with the GTXP, mainly for its upgradeability.