Thanks Brian...I appreciate it...
I my home office, between the cd shelfs, DATS, my wine making kits, and my computer system I really don't have any room to put an amp and and more speakers...I thinks I'm going to go w/ the straight up plugging the speakers directly out of the card...have a pretty nice Yamaha home theatre system already, too much overkill I think. If I had 100' of coax then it would be a different story - i'd hook right into my amp/receiver!