Funny, how this list comes to live when a topic like Creative pops up :-)
The Audigy is not capable of playing back 24 Bit - But we never positioned it to do so. It´s not a pure musician soundcard and it´s not a professional studio soundcard. But it´s got the best gaming engine you´ll find anywhere, you get really good sound quality (Roj, mute the Mic input and you CAN get 100dB) and beginners can try an excellent ASIO implementation, Soundfonts, Midi etc. Btw, the drivers are the best we made so far, and I hate bad drivers as much as you. With the 1394 on top you´ll never find a card like that for such a price. Sure there are better this and better that cards but: The Audigy is for the mass market and you all are obviously not our core target group, so why bother with it? I got an Audigy AND a Terratec EWX 24/96 and I love it.
Rgds,
Michael
Creative Labs Central Europe
I didn't bother with it.
I bought a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, which is a superior soundcard for pretty much all of the target markets you positioned the Audigy for (with the possible exception of 5.1 surround sound *gaming*), has better drivers (not to mention a better record of driver support) and costs less.
Where I come from, that's called a better product.
Roj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Deinhardt" michael@deinhardt.com To: mad-user@lists.mars.org Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:16 AM Subject: [mad-user] Audigy
Funny, how this list comes to live when a topic like Creative pops up :-)
The Audigy is not capable of playing back 24 Bit - But we never positioned it to do so. It´s not a pure musician soundcard and it´s not a professional studio soundcard. But it´s got the best gaming engine you´ll find anywhere, you get really good sound quality (Roj, mute the Mic input and you CAN get 100dB) and beginners can try an excellent ASIO implementation, Soundfonts, Midi etc. Btw, the drivers are the best we made so far, and I hate bad drivers as much as you. With the 1394 on top you´ll never find a card like that for such a price. Sure there are better this and better that cards but: The Audigy is for the mass market and you all are obviously not our core target group, so why bother with it? I got an Audigy AND a Terratec EWX 24/96 and I love it.
Rgds,
Michael
Creative Labs Central Europe
Oh, and might I add, it doesn't have misleading rhetoric on the box about the SNR and 24bit performance - but that's hype isn't it and usually used to, oh I don't know, *sell cards*.
Roj
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Deinhardt" michael@deinhardt.com To: mad-user@lists.mars.org Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 5:16 AM Subject: [mad-user] Audigy
Funny, how this list comes to live when a topic like Creative pops up :-)
The Audigy is not capable of playing back 24 Bit - But we never positioned it to do so. It´s not a pure musician soundcard and it´s not a professional studio soundcard. But it´s got the best gaming engine you´ll find anywhere, you get really good sound quality (Roj, mute the Mic input and you CAN get 100dB) and beginners can try an excellent ASIO implementation, Soundfonts, Midi etc. Btw, the drivers are the best we made so far, and I hate bad drivers as much as you. With the 1394 on top you´ll never find a card like that for such a price. Sure there are better this and better that cards but: The Audigy is for the mass market and you all are obviously not our core target group, so why bother with it? I got an Audigy AND a Terratec EWX 24/96 and I love it.
Rgds,
Michael
Creative Labs Central Europe
Hello Michael,
Thursday, November 01, 2001, 11:16:03, you wrote:
MD> With the 1394 on top you´ll never find a card like that for such a MD> price.
That's strange - I could have sworn I just picked up a Delta Audiophile 24/96 for around 260$ - about the same price as the Audigy Platinum Ex around here (Amsterdam). I admit that it's not like the Audigy in a lot of ways, but somehow I doubt those are the ways you were thinking of :)
Best regards,
Kjetil
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