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Quick question about Audigy 2

post #1 of 11
5/17/04 at 8:47am
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Does the Audigy 2 resample to 48KHz like its older brothers?
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post #2 of 11
5/17/04 at 12:12pm
Yes..
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post #3 of 11
5/17/04 at 1:35pm
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Thank you
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post #4 of 11
5/17/04 at 2:20pm
IIRC its a conditional yes. I.e. it resamples if any DSP effects are active. However, you can get 96khz in certain situations.
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post #5 of 11
5/17/04 at 7:44pm
Here is the low-down on the audigy 2 AFAIK - i used to own one.

If you want the best possible SQ, 24 bit, good re-sampling etc these are the settings you should choose.

First off, never use EAX effects, or CMSS, never run (if you have, re-install), the speaker calibration wizard, dont even install it preferably, never change the bass or treble settings with the surround mixer, just leave it at 50/50.

Use foobar2k, re-sample to 48khz or 96khz, 24 bit playback.

That is about all you can do with that card. It does not sound half bad if you have it setup properly, if you require it for gaming purposes, worth the money to invest in another soundcard for music playback however.
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post #6 of 11
5/18/04 at 4:08am
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Thanx guys. Just to clarify though, the soundcard is not mine, I am advising someone else on how to extract the best quality from it.

Cheers
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post #7 of 11
5/18/04 at 5:03am
The important thing is to have the speaker selectin on 2.1 and not headphone; sounds great for games but horrible for music. As for CMSS, I tested it with winamp, Directsound, no resampling, and there's no difference when cmss1 is on or completely off with th 2.1 setting.
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post #8 of 11
5/18/04 at 10:40am
A2 (all incarnations) resample everything below 48kHz up to 48kHz, regardless of what kind of settings one uses. On both digital and analog outputs.

Only 48kHz and higher samples can remain non-resampled, if all effects are disabled.

regards,
halcyon
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post #9 of 11
5/18/04 at 3:26pm
If your friend is planning on using the audigy as a musical source I would suggest pairing it with a warm pair of headphones/speakers. The audigy doesn't sound that bad, the problem I find with it is the sound is pretty harsh.
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post #10 of 11
5/18/04 at 5:52pm
Paul: There should be one way to get non-resampled redbook playback, and that's direct playback using the ttl-s/p-dif-out of the drive and setting the card to raw s/p-dif pass-through. In addition, the os and/or playback application must be set not to use dae via the data interface of the drive, of course - otherwise it won't work...

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini
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post #11 of 11
5/18/04 at 6:48pm
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Cheers guys. Lini, I think he's mainly using MP3's so I guess that trick only works for CD's? Anyway, its not his main source, its just there so he wanted it connecting up.

Halcyon, I'll tell him that he should be able to upsample, might make a slight further improvement.
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