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What is the best sound card to purchase?

A customer of mine wants me to order a sound card that would give high quality sound.
Also on one of his other computers he can play sound in two different programs and both programs will play at the same time.  The intergraded sound chip that he has now will not do this, so I need to know that the one I purchase will do this.  
    I am not too much up on purchasing sound cards,  So I am hoping someone could help me with this.  This will go into a desktop computer.
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The slot that it would go in is a PCI-E x1 2.0 Slot.  This customer would rather spend some money to get a quality sound system then going cheap and not getting something decent.
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I was having a hard time understanding just what this customer was wanting to do with the high-end card also until he brought his computer over to me and showed me.  I still don't understand everything he does, but here is some things.
He works with songs on three different programs.  One is Itunes, and the others I don't remember, but he likes to have all three of these programs running at the same time.  On this particular computer he could not listen to the music on all three programs at the same time.  So, after some tweeking, and playing with some setting I was able to get all three programs to play songs at the same time. So then he didn't need a different card anyway.
But this session wasn't wasted because this was a great learning experience for me.  
thanks for all of your help
good to hear you could solve it
Thank you beemer