Any difference between Audigy 2 ZS and platinum?
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why stay away from audigy? did you have a bad experience and didnt bother to solve the issue or overcome it to avoid mishaps in the future? Boycotting the company?
I QUOTE = pg 58, Maximum PC, MAY 2004 issue.
"My pc has a Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with an Athlon XP 2700+. Im comsidering an audigy 2 soundcard to my system, but i wonder if i will hear and see any sort of performance difference compared with the nForce2 onboard audio. Will i get faster frame rates?" = customer
"The doctor generally reccomends add-in soundcards over onboard audio except when there's an nForce2 involved. While most onboard audio is hhost based, and thus soaks up CPU cycles, then nForce2 features true hardware acceleration, so your not likely to see any advantage at all to using an add-in-card. The nForce2's MCP-T south bridge chip is also the only product on the market that encodes audio, including directsound3d, to dolby digital. However, there may still be reason to upgrade to an audigy card. Creative's Audigy 2 ZS usues components capable of 24-bit audio and uniquely includes hardware security that lets you play dvd audio disc. the audigy 2 zs also lets you run eight channel audio versus the sic channel audio of the A7N8X Deluxe. To the doctors ears, the 24-bit sounds cleaner than the A7N8X when using high resoloution samples. For most material, you'll probably never notice the difference."
Creative has been the leader in PC audio products for years. only recently others have developed chips that can match and may perform a little different. there tech support and warranty coverage is excellent. I bought a Audigy 1 platinum way back when it was first released and I gotta say, i still have and see no need to upgrade becase of what you can do with that card hardware wise. Its amasing on how you can chage your sound on the fly with performance increases. It does take a strain off of your pc, espically if your into music production.
get the platinum if you are into music production or are experimental. I mean you can do all those things and still coneect devices to the card with out the box in the front, but the box allows you to NOT make your own cables to say = plug your turn talbes or electric guitar into your rig.
hey i like audigy, it was the begining of consumer friendly high end audio products. I dont think there was an nForce around when the audigy 1 was release to the public. i ould be wrong though.
I QUOTE = pg 58, Maximum PC, MAY 2004 issue.
"My pc has a Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo with an Athlon XP 2700+. Im comsidering an audigy 2 soundcard to my system, but i wonder if i will hear and see any sort of performance difference compared with the nForce2 onboard audio. Will i get faster frame rates?" = customer
"The doctor generally reccomends add-in soundcards over onboard audio except when there's an nForce2 involved. While most onboard audio is hhost based, and thus soaks up CPU cycles, then nForce2 features true hardware acceleration, so your not likely to see any advantage at all to using an add-in-card. The nForce2's MCP-T south bridge chip is also the only product on the market that encodes audio, including directsound3d, to dolby digital. However, there may still be reason to upgrade to an audigy card. Creative's Audigy 2 ZS usues components capable of 24-bit audio and uniquely includes hardware security that lets you play dvd audio disc. the audigy 2 zs also lets you run eight channel audio versus the sic channel audio of the A7N8X Deluxe. To the doctors ears, the 24-bit sounds cleaner than the A7N8X when using high resoloution samples. For most material, you'll probably never notice the difference."
Creative has been the leader in PC audio products for years. only recently others have developed chips that can match and may perform a little different. there tech support and warranty coverage is excellent. I bought a Audigy 1 platinum way back when it was first released and I gotta say, i still have and see no need to upgrade becase of what you can do with that card hardware wise. Its amasing on how you can chage your sound on the fly with performance increases. It does take a strain off of your pc, espically if your into music production.
get the platinum if you are into music production or are experimental. I mean you can do all those things and still coneect devices to the card with out the box in the front, but the box allows you to NOT make your own cables to say = plug your turn talbes or electric guitar into your rig.
hey i like audigy, it was the begining of consumer friendly high end audio products. I dont think there was an nForce around when the audigy 1 was release to the public. i ould be wrong though.
Lyfer
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What an extremely intelligent response.:disgust:
The platinum is basically the same card with gold connectors and 5" bay drive to connect all of your goodies. Also it comes with a pretty good software bundle that should shave off some of the costs of the card.
Schadenfroh
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The card IS EXACTLY THE SAME
the ONLY differance is the break out box (which 95% of us dont need), the software bundle is a lil bigger and the remote controle.
its not worth the increase of price IMO
Schadenfroh
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i said the same thing, untill i bought an audigy 2 zs and learned creative has made a 180 degree turn around from the way they used to be. i love this sound card, much better than my a7n8x deluxes onboard sound.
i say stay away from the audigy because it doesnt have as high an audio quality as say this
the audigy your namely buying brand and maybe you want all the 'cool' features it offers but there are better things out there for sure
the m-audio has the the new via sound chip and it doesnt resample everything(ya, everything) to a different bit rate. and from what i have read the actual audio quality is much better on the m-audio because this is a pro-sumer card and not creative updating its line of audio cards to reflect what people want(plugs everywhere for anything you can imagine)
the audigy your namely buying brand and maybe you want all the 'cool' features it offers but there are better things out there for sure
the m-audio has the the new via sound chip and it doesnt resample everything(ya, everything) to a different bit rate. and from what i have read the actual audio quality is much better on the m-audio because this is a pro-sumer card and not creative updating its line of audio cards to reflect what people want(plugs everywhere for anything you can imagine)
Schadenfroh
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creative is the best for games and the least CPU usage
(i would kill myself a year ago if i heard myself arguing in favor of creative,)
(i would kill myself a year ago if i heard myself arguing in favor of creative,)
Nebor
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You're a fool, the M-audio still runs everything through K-mixer by default. Only if you use ASIO or kernel streaming can you circumvent K-mixer to avoid resampling. The Audigy has actual hardware onboard that does resampling of 44.1khz to 44.1khz that can't be circumvented, which is sort of crappy. But most people can't notice that unless they compare it directly with a card that isn't resampling at all.
IMO the M-Audio Delta 24/96 is a better choice than the Revo. But with the Audigy 3 and another big new card coming (I can't remember what it's called, but it should be huge for audio enthusiast) I wouldn't go in for a $150+ sound card right now.
Yet again. I will bring up this:
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done. (Nothing wrong with audigy)
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done.
(Nothing wrong with audigy)
Nebor
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Originally posted by: RedShirt
Yet again. I will bring up this:
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done.
Only if it's hooked up digitally to a reciever. Otherwise it's no better than any other onboard sound.
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: RedShirt
Yet again. I will bring up this:
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done.
Only if it's hooked up digitally to a reciever. Otherwise it's no better than any other onboard sound.
Correct. I do have mine hooked up to a receiver (only way to go with soundstorm).
There are speaker setups (like the high end logitech) that take an optical in. This would work as well.
I was thinking on getting the Audigy 2 ZS Gamer on compusa for $80 AR. Then I can sell my Santa Cruz, and other stuff also.
Nebor
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Originally posted by: RedShirt
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: RedShirt
Yet again. I will bring up this:
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done.
Only if it's hooked up digitally to a reciever. Otherwise it's no better than any other onboard sound.
Correct. I do have mine hooked up to a receiver (only way to go with soundstorm).
There are speaker setups (like the high end logitech) that take an optical in. This would work as well.
High end Logitech is an oxymoron.
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: RedShirt
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: RedShirt
Yet again. I will bring up this:
The Abit NF7-S is a soundcard with integrated motherboard. It is cheaper than the audigy ZS and offers better features (Socket-A, Dimm Slots, LAN, AGP, etc).
Ok, I'm done.
Only if it's hooked up digitally to a reciever. Otherwise it's no better than any other onboard sound.
Correct. I do have mine hooked up to a receiver (only way to go with soundstorm).
There are speaker setups (like the high end logitech) that take an optical in. This would work as well.
High end Logitech is an oxymoron.
Well, I agree... How about Logitech's best model? Or, the most expensive computer logitech speakers?
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