The New Audigy 2...

[Artie J]

From Creative's site:
"Sound Blaster Audigy 2 lets you make rich 24-bit recordings to your PC with an unprecedented 24-bit/96kHz recording capability, while ASIO support allows compatible music creation software to link directly to ASIO compliant hardware, allowing multi-channel recording simultaneously at 16-bit/48khz at ultra low latency of <=2ms."
Also, they're claiming a SNR of 106 dB.
Sounds verrrry interesting. I've been pretty happy with my Audigy and Sonar.

Any hands on experiece here?

[XenosoniK]

despite the fact that this time they MAY be using true 24 bit, the fact that creative still uses ****** converters still puts them behind in the audio department.

i could be wrong...

-X

[bassdude]

Originally posted by Artie J:
..." while ASIO support allows compatible music creation software to link directly to ASIO compliant hardware, allowing multi-channel recording simultaneously at 16-bit/48khz at ultra low latency of <=2ms."


Still not quite there yet then? Also that SNR might be referring to the digital inputs only and not the onboard audio converters.

[Matthew Skinner]

hehehe yeah you can never trust their figures they quote. They also wrote "allowing multi-channel recording simultaneously at 16-bit/48khz" ... What happened to the "rich 24bit" that its supposed to be able to do on record ?!?!?!


Maybe one day they make a card thats not just good for games.

[surly_and_reticent]

The reason for the 24/16 bit discrepency is that while there are drivers to record 24 bit 96khz, there are no such ASIO drivers, only 16 bit 48khz (see http://www.soundblaster.com/products/audigy2/specs.asp ). I have just bought an Audigy 2 but not the computer I'm planning on putting it in. When my system is running I'll tell you more on this card's performance. As to the 106dB snr, Creative Lab's online material implies that this relates to the the ADC's and DAC's. Indeed (and I'm not absolutely certain on this), I don't believe that signal-to-noise ratio is relevant at all to digital I/O's, so if they were refering to only digital recording this would be extremely misleading.