[mattpwill]

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...ve-audigy2-zs/

Scroll down to the 24 bit RMAA results. The reviewer talks about the problem. Keep in mind that this review is quite old, so the newer drivers have hopefully fixed it

 

[Asmo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by mattpwill http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...ve-audigy2-zs/ Scroll down to the 24 bit RMAA results. The reviewer talks about the problem. Keep in mind that this review is quite old, so the newer drivers have hopefully fixed it

Nope, its hardware not drivers, it will never change. Give up on the audigy 2 man, its a lost cause. Gaming is not considered hi-fidelty anyways, the re-sampling and shiz it does, is not important, you wouldn't notice a difference while playing games, game sounds/samples are not mastered to be super high quality, some games have good soundtracks however, but most game music/soundtracks are like movies and pop music, not engineered towards hi-fi.

What I would do, is use the audigy 2 ZS + 5.1 speakers for gaming, use a E-MU card hooked up to a headphone amplifier for your headphones to listen to music with. If you want to game with headphones, just use some sort of cable splitter from the A2 to the amp.

 

[maarek99]

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Originally Posted by Asmo Nope, its hardware not drivers, it will never change. Give up on the audigy 2 man, its a lost cause.

Resampling will not change, but that 24-bit problem sounded like the reviewers had some effects enabled (like the eq and cmss) and after that the audigys dsp steps in and it's 16-bit.

Besides why did they measure noise from spdif out?

 

[ITZBITZ]

EverQuest II -> Audigy 2 ZS Gamer -> EAX 4.0 -> Headphone Speaker Setup -> S/PDIF output -> Pioneer DIR800C -> Brain

No problems, works as expected, all reverb and other effects are perfect and the game sounds awesome (aside from the fact that the audio is all 22 KHz that is).