itza2mer
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Download the newest drivers from Creative to fix the resample 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz bug
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum eX- any good?
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halcyon
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Just noticed this old thread with post by itza2mer.
I must add that the Audigy (and SBLive) resampling limitation is in hardware.
It cannot be circumvented with driver updates.
All of the cards up to and including Audigy 2 Platinum eX will always resample 44.1kHz to 48kHz.
Later versions of the drivers improve (as itza2mer suggested) the resampling quality, so it's not as horrible as it was with original drivers.
cheers,
halcyon
I must add that the Audigy (and SBLive) resampling limitation is in hardware.
It cannot be circumvented with driver updates.
All of the cards up to and including Audigy 2 Platinum eX will always resample 44.1kHz to 48kHz.
Later versions of the drivers improve (as itza2mer suggested) the resampling quality, so it's not as horrible as it was with original drivers.
cheers,
halcyon
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Uh - hmm.. I have quite a few Sound cards here that I've listened to extensively (M-Audio Revolution, Audigy 1, Audigy 2, SB Live, SB AWE32, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) - and the Audigy2, while not as colored as the SB Live, is far from 'sterile'. I'd say far from detailed too - but out of all the cards I have, it would be rated second in detail. The Audigy2 is decent for a soundcard, providing adequte detail with a good tonal balance. Creative cards before the Audigy2 are totally non-detailed with a tonal balance that colors the whole sound. The M-Audio Revolution is the card that I would call 'sterile' and 'detailed'. The detail of the Revolution vastly surpasses the Audigy2, but the tonal balance, IMO leaves the sound dry and 'sterile'. I like the Audigy2 and Revolution about equally much, but for different reasons. The others I have are left in the dust.
Fortunately the SACDMODed 775 I'll be receiving in the near future will blow them all away
(especially since it was probably better than all of them before the mods).
-dd3mon
| Originally posted by jaeger66 The A2 is more detailed, but also flat and sterile. IOW, the typical mass market digital sound. |
Uh - hmm.. I have quite a few Sound cards here that I've listened to extensively (M-Audio Revolution, Audigy 1, Audigy 2, SB Live, SB AWE32, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) - and the Audigy2, while not as colored as the SB Live, is far from 'sterile'. I'd say far from detailed too - but out of all the cards I have, it would be rated second in detail. The Audigy2 is decent for a soundcard, providing adequte detail with a good tonal balance. Creative cards before the Audigy2 are totally non-detailed with a tonal balance that colors the whole sound. The M-Audio Revolution is the card that I would call 'sterile' and 'detailed'. The detail of the Revolution vastly surpasses the Audigy2, but the tonal balance, IMO leaves the sound dry and 'sterile'. I like the Audigy2 and Revolution about equally much, but for different reasons. The others I have are left in the dust.
Fortunately the SACDMODed 775 I'll be receiving in the near future will blow them all away
-dd3mon
lini
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Well, there is an amp circuit behind the headphone jack - it's just not really a good one. And you forgot another plus: If you need a small slab of metal for whatever reason, your just have to open your external connector box and take it out.
Probably Creative checked Hercules' Game Theater XP before, where the anaconda-like cable was a bit too heavy for the connector box, and then decided to give the Platinum EX a little extra weight...
Greetings & grinnings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
| Originally posted by halcyon - The headphone output is unamplified (will not drive HD600 or power hungry Beyerdynamics to their full capability) |
Well, there is an amp circuit behind the headphone jack - it's just not really a good one. And you forgot another plus: If you need a small slab of metal for whatever reason, your just have to open your external connector box and take it out.
Greetings & grinnings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
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