Audigy 2

[Disvengeance]

im gettin an audigy 2 in the mail wednesday?, ( better be wednesday or else neweggs dead), anyways. anyone else got this card, im upgrading from a crappy soundblaster live!, so should there be a very notable difference?

[TheBaron]

well i went from an SB Live to an Audigy (1), sound quality was much improved. as a side note, i ALSO have an audigy 2 coming in the mail next week!

[WuGgaRoO]

oh hell yeah...i upgraded from a tbs montego to a sb live plat 5.1 OMG!!! the difference....(but right now onboard sounds suits me more than fine) but regardless...yeah the new one will def pwn the old one

[Al_Capown]

/me really can't tell the difference between sound cards...


I'd say the speakers that you have make the biggest difference ;[

Anyways, I originally had an sb live! 5.1 with some ****ty compaq speakers... Then i upgraded to an audigy 2, but i wasn't too sure if i noticed much of a difference. Then i got klipsch 4.1's and i noticed a huge difference in sound quality (in my opinion due to the speaker upgrade not the sound card). Then i built a new computer... i couldn't install the audigy 2 drivers so i just went with the quality mcp-t onboard sound. Traded the audigy 2 for an abit is7 (to baron) and here we are today, rather satisfied with my sound quality.

[Spinner]

The signal to noise ratios on the Audigy 1 and 2 are much better than on the Live cards. It is that factor which really makes the sound quality much improved. The Audigy 1 and 2 are both worthy upgrades for the Live cards.

But yeah, if you've got a real crappy pair of speakers, you won't tell the difference at all. However, like I said, if you've got something half descent putting out the sound, then the difference between the two cards should be immediately noticeable.

Cheers

[WuGgaRoO]

spinner has a point...sound is all relative to where ur bottleneck is...if u have crap speakers and a good soundcard..itll still sound like crap....and vice versa... its like trying to play a fps with a radeon 9800 pro with a 450mhz cpu...it just wont cut the mustard

[Disvengeance]

i got some pretty nice altec lansing speakers, and i also got my 5.1 surround sound speakers witch ill be using for my new comp

[TheBaron]

then you ought to be happy with that upgrade

[Enverex]

WuGgaRoO said
spinner has a point...sound is all relative to where ur bottleneck is...if u have crap speakers and a good soundcard..itll still sound like crap....and vice versa... its like trying to play a fps with a radeon 9800 pro with a 450mhz cpu...it just wont cut the mustard

It will in 3DMark2003......

NS