Creative officially unveiled the sequel to the Audigy soundcard a couple of months ago amid much excitement among those in the know. The original Audigy is something of a landmark in audio hardware, cementing Creative as the industry leader. The anticipation is therefore high that the Audigy 2 will embody yet another step towards audio-excellence for PC owners.

Whilst technologically-wise the card isn’t as revolutionary as the original Audigy player, solid progress is displayed in the shape of DVD audio support, 192kHz/24-bit playback, 6.1 channel audio support, Dolby Digital EX decoding and THX certification. Lucas Film were certainly impressed it seems, but will the canny PC upgrader be as enthusiastic about shelling out for this new piece of kit?

As ever, installation is a fairly simple prospect of removing your old audio card, and locating your new toy in a free PCI socket, this done you’ll need to replace your casing, boot-up your PC, and use the bundled drivers and software to get your ears humming.

On this front, its pleasing to note that Creative have spruced up their software for the sequel, not only is everything a little more easy on the eye, its much simpler to use and easier to navigate as well. Not a massive improvement, but its nice to see that matters have been made easier for us, still.

With regard to the specification, here’s some technical titillation for those of you interested in comparing the cold hard facts:

High Definition Audio Quality for Playback and Recording

  • 24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion during playback with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz in 6.1 mode and up to 192kHz in stereo mode

  • 24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion during recording in 8, 16 or 24-bit at sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz

  • SPDIF output up to 24-bit at 48 or 96kHz

  • ASIO™ drivers for low latency (as low as 2ms) multi-track playback and recording at 16-bit/48kHz

    Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology

  • Dolby Digital® audio decoding to 5.1 (digital or analog modes) or Dolby Digital® EX decoding to 6.1 (analog mode only) speaker channels

  • Hardware acceleration of EAX® and EAX® Advanced HD™ for games

  • 32-bit Professional Quality Effects Engine with support for real-time digital effects like reverb and chorus across any audio source

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    1. peter.steele@gmx.net Unregistered 7 years ago

      Does this Card support 4.1???

    2. peter.steele@gmx.net Unregistered 7 years ago

      Does this Card support 4.1???

    3. peter.steele@gmx.net Unregistered 7 years ago

      Does this Card support 4.1???

    4. sm95136@msn.com Unregistered 6 years ago

      Yeah , works great , but not with easy creator 5.3 platinum. It 5.3 won't reconize this awsome card. Roxio is not doing any patches at this time

    5. thomas@tfenet.com Unregistered 6 years ago

      This card is a great improvement to the AC97 card built onto my motherboard, but I can't get the S/PDIF passthrough to an external decoder to function correctly. I use this machine as a PC to TV set-top box and attach it directly to a Sony STR-DE835 amp/tuner to have it decode Dolby Digital and DTS. On activation, the stereo only reports a PCM [48kHz] signal but multi channel decoding never activates with DTS playback. This becomes very apparent when a movie with a DTS soundtrack is played, and only the front right and left speakers work when all others are silent. Using the bundled speaker calibration wizard reveals the same problem. Are there any known fixes for this, or are those of us who connect their computer to a home theatre, basically screwed?

    6. georgedonald Unregistered 6 years ago

      i have alredy got the soundcard in my computer but i need the softwear

    7. georgedonald Unregistered 6 years ago

      can i download it from your site

    8. Gaetan Unregistered 6 years ago

      Perhaps you should just CHECK on the box or the website whether this card has SPDIF I/O's...

    9. Cary Unregistered 6 years ago

      Digital out is stereo. No ASIO 2. Trying to figure out if I can get 2X stereo, or some kind of virtual surround simulation ala Q-Sound in 4.0. Anybody know? As far as 4.1 goes, shouldn't be a problem.

    10. luzhiqiang Unregistered 6 years ago

      ?????WindowsXP

    11. dave Unregistered 6 years ago

      is there any known problems with amd motherboards that have via chip sets like the first audigy card?

    12. daven Unregistered 6 years ago

      has the card been sheilded to prevent machine noise? is this the card to buy if you want to produce music? how dose it compare to the terrtec 6 dmx in the way of creating audio? ive owned a creative platium card and i am not impressed, the problems in have and others have been to much. is there a recommended hardware pc setup or what. i hope this new card can do the job but im still not sure. is via a problem and if so what is recommended? anyone please help

    13. sanjin Unregistered 6 years ago

      well i found lacking - low subwoffer output... My mobo realtekac650 hawe better bass then a2 using inspire 6700....

    14. Jez Unregistered 5 years ago

      Don't buy thios card if you are a musician and want to take advantage of the 24-bit recording. It's a scam!! Boy I'm mad!!

      The Audigy 2 DOES NOT record or play at 24-bit resolution with any music software, only the piddly recording program that comes with it,. which is fine for putting your vinyls onto your hard disk, but no other software can play these files. It has many other features which many people many find attractive, but I wish I'd bought an Audiophile now. Grr!

    15. Dino Unregistered 4 years ago

      can't record to none of the in's of the Audigy 2 card????

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