Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE

Zitat: At the end of this review, we can conclude without a doubt that Creative has really outdone itself and, as promised, they managed to engineer a product that can be considered an “Upgrade from Basic Motherboard Audio to Outstanding Music, Movie and Game Sound,” exactly as they´ve boasted on the box of the audio card. Only after you try one of these in your system are you going to realize how poorly the audio chips that are integrated in current motherboards actually perform. Simply said, this so

Zitat: Creative´s Audigy 2 is another ground breaking audio solution in an age where technological advances in the PC industry are becoming more frequently common. At the moment Creative appear to hold the lead in the PC audio market and so far they have done a pretty good job at showing they can develop high quality products for both home and business consumers at an affordable cost. Their EAX ADVANCED technology is now becoming more widely supported in current and forth coming games titles and it wou

Zitat: The Audigy2 is a fine sound card, no doubts about that. Whether you should run out to the local retailer to buy one right after you finished reading this article is another story. The addition of true 24-bit/96KHz support is nice, so is the DVD-audio and 6.1-channel Surround Sound support, but it is not significantly better in terms of features or performance than the original Audigy. Overall the Audigy2 is a well-rounded product with many of the features that we already saw on the original Audigy. The extra features such as 24-bit/96KHz, 6.1-channel Surround Sound and DVD-audio are generally only important if you’re purchasing a new soundcard today and not for those that are looking to upgrade their current Audigy soundcard. If you need a new soundcard today, by all means go with an Audigy2, it is simply one of the best-rounded sound cards available today. So what about the competition? Frankly Creative Labs’ sound cards have always been very popular, but we see a trend among the onboard solutions to offer an increasing number of features at a very low price. If at some point solutions such as Nvidia’s Nforce and Nforce2 become the de-facto standard, Creative Labs might pretty well be caught in a niche there, as the price of an onboard solution is only a fraction of what a seperate sound card costs.