pzs22 Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 Hello. I have some money to burn (my birthday is on tesday and I already have some cash) and I have been wanting to upgrade my sound card for some time now. Right now I have a SB Live! 5.1. I have been having problem of late with it in WinXP, and would like to upgrade. I am using Klipsch Pro Media 5.1's as my speakers. The machine is mainly used as a music, gaming, and dvd machine. I guess you could say its an all around multi media machine. I have narrowed my choices down to: Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS Platinum -OR- Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 ZS Platinum Pro Seems (to me) that the only difference between the two is the ASIO 2.0 Low Latency Multi-Track Recording Support (24-bit/96kHz). Is that really the only difference between the 2 cards? And, which do you reccomend I get?? I do not do much recording, but my brother just got a new guitar (acoustic electric) so he may want to record some stuff. Is the pro worth the extra money? Let me know what you think... any insight would be wonderful. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 pzs22 , Welcome to the Form, and Happy B day early. You would get more hits on this question by re posting further down in the Computer section. Just scroll down the page. Good Luck............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pzs22 Posted December 15, 2003 Author Share Posted December 15, 2003 OK thanks, I'll repost it in the comp section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark1101 Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 A word of caution about Audigy 2 cards, all of them. The wonderful upsampling specs only pertain to the digital domain (digital outputs). If you use the analog outputs to go to a reciever or amp, guess what? It's good, but not much better than the old 16 bit SB live. The new software to control the card is a fragmented mess. There are 10-15 programs, and they only make sense once you've spent a couple of hours analyzing them. I actually like the performance and can use the SW pretty well now. But don't think your PC is going to become an audiophile device using the Audigy analog outputs. The specialties of Audigy are DVD audio and 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 audio and gaming. Plain old analog is treated like just that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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