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Yeah, and we all know you wouldn't do something like that would you? I seem to recall someone with a name like yours picking up on John Carmack saying "Could" instead of "Couldn't" and turning that into him admitting he was incapable...
As far as Kaveri, I don't consider this a 'discrete card' (which you'll notice I highlighted in the quote to indicate what I was talking about). So not counting Kaveri for that reason, which other models have the True Audio DSP other than the 290X, 290 and 260X (the 3 models I was refering to).
That's what should happen when you eliminate the audio cpu overhead and offload the audio processing to dedicated hardware while at the same time massively increasing audio fidelity.
Add to the fact AMD effectively reduced comparable gpu pricing with undercutting the slower 780 while directly forcing Nvidia's hand in reducing pricing, I fail to see the problem/fuss in being charged for a feature you don't want.
You don't need headphones for audio DSP btw, set up your speakers properly and you will be impressed(if the audio coder does his job).
The vids can't give a true indication as there is zero action/visual cues, maybe try it first before all the negativity-you may already be a lost cause to TA by the sound of your negativity though.
But you said you will avoid any game that use it? That's just abit over the top dont you think?
They is a high chance in next year or so all PC games will support TrueAudio, the PS4 also use the same thing and is easy to use between platforms.
So you might have a small selection of games to buy
Your missing the point regarding performance.
Your soundcard(apart from straight output)/cpu isn't going to be processing any sound calculations, it's removing cpu overhead, it did improve performance because the soundcard(XFi with onboard dsp's) eliminated the need for audio to be calculated on the cpu.
Sound processing is offloaded to dedicated hardware the soundcard had extra hardware DSP's to deal with the processing, much the same as TA theoretically should.
On your point of speakers, while observing that you do spend a few quid on gfx to skimp on sound, you are losing gaming fidelity imho with running 2 speakers at the side of your screen but can appreciate you not placing value on sound output.
