Is there a better audio system for Zorin?

I had similar issues with my SB AudigyRX. I solved it by adding all ALSA packages, and all QAS packages, as stated in previous post, and what has saved the day for me on Q4OS and PCLinuxOS is Audacious:

and because of this, even in-game music playing Wesnoth comes out of all speakers of my Logitech surround sound system.