LGR is one of the more interesting YouTube shows I watch because he covers a pretty incredible topic: old school PC hardware. In his latest retrospective he looks at the Gravis UltraSound a piece of hardware WAY out of my price range for the time. In the 90's I didn't have the greatest PC hardware and remember when I was salivating over a 2X CD ROM so I could play Myst much less a super fancy sound card like the Gravis. Eventually entry level soundblaster cards were standard faire for PC's and we were able to buy a Packard Bell 486/SX 25 that came pre-loaded with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. Even though great sound become a staple of all computers there was a time...
I remember getting one of these in the late 90s on a hobby PC I had gotten from work. They'd upgraded to one that was only 4 or 5 years old. What got me about it was how much easier it was to deal with. Basically if you had this or a SoundBlaster you were golden. Otherwise you had to deal with SoundBlaster emulation which was spotty.
I had the GUS! It didn't have the support that the sound blaster had at the time.