Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card
With the introduction of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2, Creative has once more raised the bar for PC audio, bringing to you the most definitive audio experience yet!Sound Blaster Audigy 2 delivers high-quality multi-channel recording and playback at up to 24-bit/96kHz and is the first PC product to offer playback of Advanced Resolution DVD-Audio at an astonishing 24-bit/192kHz with a stunning Signal-to-Noise ratio of 106dB, delivering spectacular audio quality that has now redefined PC audio standards. With EAX Advanced HD, 6.1 speaker support and Dolby Digital EX support, movies and games will be experienced with a breathtaking level of immersion and intensity, while SB1394 allows super-fast transfer of audio to external players.
For the highest-quality audio experience, 16-bit is just not good enough. Step up to Sound Blaster Audigy 2 to hear the amazing difference that 24-bit Advanced HD makes. It delivers astonishing clarity and audio details that are inaudible on current 16-bit audio solutions, bringing your music, movies, and games to life. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 offers Advanced Resolution DVD-audio playback up to an astonishing 24-bit/192 kHz in stereo, and delivers an ultraquiet 106 dB SNR that's far superior to ordinary CD and MP3 playback. With 6.1 speaker support, your games and Dolby Digital EX movies will sound more encompassing than ever before. The new Creative MediaSource music player will revolutionize your MP3 experience with its intuitive interface and rich feature set, while the Audigy 2 chip with EAX Advanced HD support delivers awesome power for gaming. Get Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for 24-bit/192 kHz audio fidelity--it delivers simply the best audio quality for music, movies, and games. Nothing else comes close.
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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card Reviews
Everything in life should be this simple. Good luck and don't forget as Red Green says, "if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy". If you want a basic card for your basic sound look no further. Save some money folks.
We plugged it in, loaded the software and she ran from the get go. Darn happy and come to think of it we have never had a Creative Lap product that we had to shoot. One thing, see if you can buy one used. I'm not going to bother you with detailed tripe because I really can't hear the difference and if you are playing 128 mp3s you won't ether.
Mike
Early drivers (e.g. So if you want one of the clearest, most flexible, highest sample rate cards ever on the PC market up to this year, get one of these if you can (I've bought 3 spare cards in case any of my current ones die, as CL no longer support the product at all). Ever. But for me, the Audigy 2ZS is the BMW of the older audio card market. nowhere near it's actual technical specifications). those shipped on the CD) had some pretty bad flaws, but at least they allowed the card to work to its full potential (which is really astonishingly good). To be honest, my next card will be anything BUT a Creative Labs product. It's jaw-droppingly good.
Have a drive, if you can. Then there's a whole other discussion about CL supporting more than one card in any computer system. The only other manufactured card supporting this brilliant sampling clarity costs US$250 more. You just probably wouldn't want to own one. I have dealt directly with the driver team at CL, and to say they are unhelpful is an understatement.
No other soundcard on the market, then or now, offers the flexibility and just great sound capturing capabilities of this card. But I have to reinforce the driver problems described by others. I use a couple of Audigy 2ZS in my recording business.
If you only get a hold of one of these cards to see how good audio CAN be on your computer, do it. All the latest drivers (since late 2005) use the Creative "universal" driver model, which means they are designed to work correctly ONLY with the newer, low market level CL cards. All the new drivers have significant bugs and "showstopper" flaws, and completely prevent the card from being used properly (i.e.
Interestingly, all the later Creative products no longer support 192k/24 bit sampling, so this card is truly unique. Just don't expect the latest "mass market", "cloth-eared consumer" Creative labs drivers to work properly, and don't expect CL to help you with any technical problems. Old drivers worked beautifully with multiple cards, but new drivers just lock out inputs and confuse mixer settings and just don't work, full stop.
Which if you dont use everything sounds much worse by the way. If you can look past that problem though.great sound card.creative just needs to learn how to program decent software, cause the drivers for this sound card are absolutely horrid. Alright.when I can actually get this darn thing to work right it is an EXCELLENT sound card.But over the past few years I've had this thing I have had to reinstall the drives numerous times.I mean.much more than I should have to.This program will only function right for me for about a few months before I have to reinstall it again. I have updated my drivers and I'm sure nothing is wrong with my hard drive, still get the same problem.suddenly something stops working right, this time it was the fact that I can only choose 4.1 speakers.not even headphones or anything else.I dont even have 4.1 speakers.I have 6.1.Last time I couldn't change the EAX settings from default, so everything sounded horrible, the time before that I couldn't even open the EAX console period, mostly it's just problems with their EAX software.
Creative will NEVER offer a driver pack on its webpage. There is a good chance that once you go to reinstall your drivers, you will get a "Hardware not found" message (see Creative's tech support forum) and not be able to install the drivers. So I uninstalled the drivers and tried to reinstall them. Now that my CD is 2 years old, there appears to be a conflict with *its* drivers and creative's patches. I have had this card for 2 years now and it has worked fine for me as long as I didn't play with Creative's drivers or software. 1. All of a sudden, sound quit coming out of my rear speakers ONLY in certain Creative applications, and the speaker calibrator quit putting out any sound.
Apparently not enough bananas were bought for the gibbons, and they wandered out to the jungle in search of nourishment before finishing a full driver package. Want another banana, Creative programmer. 2. You MUST, I repeat MUST start with your original CD to load some drivers, and then you can get Creative's patches from their webpage. OOO OOO OO AHH AHHH AHHH. Be aware that -. Wish I had my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz back.
My card is now a steaming pile of $100 poo since their driver system is not working for me.
Now maybe not many people need to use the input jack but it is a must for me. I called Creative Labs, Dell and got no where. I had this card installed in my Dell when I ordered it and I will say it does sound great BUT there is one proplem with it that I need and that is the input will not work. So if you want just great sound, this card is good but if you need to record albums, etc. then forget it, this card won't do it, or at least mine won't. My old computer had a simple card but it did work.
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