Audigy 2 - Wavetable - PCI - 24 bit - Internal - MPN: 70SB024000007 See Product Details
Description
For the highest quality audio experience, 16-bit is just not good enough - step up to Sound Blaster Audigy 2 to hear the amazing difference that 24-bit Advanced HD makes! It delivers astonishing clarity and audio details that are inaudible on current 16-bit audio solutions bringing your music, movies and games to life.
Quick Glance
Supported Channels: 6.1
Slot Type: PCI
S/N Ratio: 106 dB - 2V Rated Output, 102 dB - 1V Rated Output
Summary
Product Title: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card
Manufacturer: Creative
Power Score: 2.7 | 14 Reviews
General
Class: Card
Category: Sound/Multimedia
Supported Audio Channels: 6.1
Type of Sound Card: Internal Sound Board
Slot Type: PCI
Interface Connection: 1 x Audio Line Out, 1 x Audio Line Out - Digital, 1 x Audio Line In, 1 x Audio Line In - Mic, 1 x IEEE 1394 FireWire, 1 x Audio Line In - Telephone Answering Device In, 1 x Audio Line In - Analog / Digital CD Audio In, 1 x 15-pin
Audio Technologies: EAX, DirectSound 3D
Digital Audio Depth: 24 bit
Signal To Noise Ratio: 106 dB - 2V Rated Output, 102 dB - 1V Rated Output
Music Generation: Wavetable
System Type: PC
Weight: 1.40
Warranty Information: 12 Year Limited
URL: Manufacturer Link
Strengths: Works as advertised. Great Sound. Bought a couple of DVD-Audio discs and had my mind blown! Of course having the MegaWorks THX speakers helps.
Weakness: Diagnostics have never worked even with numerous software updates. Fortunately, I've never needed the diagnostics (knock on wood!)
I admit that the software update process is a tough one if you attempt to download and install all the various drivers manually. However, once I found out about their automatic update service here: www.americas.creative.... ...I've had no problems whatsoever.
Strengths: Easy Setup, Excellent Sound
Weakness: None
To the person who gave it a 1 star just because he doesn't know how to install a sound card. Give me a break....I install the Audigy 2 sound card in 5 minutes. Work fine and trouble free. Great sound card and I recommend this sound card to everyone who doesn't want to spend the money for the Audigy 2 Platinum EX.
Strengths: SQ is good. Haven't had install problems like other.
Weakness: Setup program is terrible. Not enough options.
I've had this card for 3 months with no complaints. For under $100, you can have great sound quality - assuming you can get it installed. I could get it installed on my fresh copy of XP Enterprise, but I wouldn't doubt others have had problems. The install program is terrible and does not have enough options. Overall, this is a solid 5.1 card.
Strengths: No blue screens of death, able to boot almost every time dispite other troubles. Only took 13 days to find out it wont work with the only flavor of Windows that is gaming friendly.
Weakness: crashed every other game, the ones that didn't crash had the worst skipping sound/dropped sound. Driver installation "succeded" 1 out of 3 times (the worst system hang I've ever had).
First time I installed the drivers they installed, I rebooted, and the new creative sound/logo was chopped and skippy. I tried playing every game I had installed, and a few of them crashed back to the desktop, the rest had choppy/skippy sound and the intros were visually skippy, with skippy sound. I reinstalled the drivers multiple times, downloaded the "updated" driver, used their online...
Strengths: Card sounded excellent
Weakness: Quality is lacking
I bought the card eight months ago, and was highly impressed with the sound quality that it produced. After five months however it began to have problems. The card was not recognized by the Creative software. MS XP would install a driver for it anyway, and the card would produce sound, but not the quality that it originally had. It took three months to get an RMA from Creative. I sent the card in...
Strengths: none
Weakness: can't get it to work, locks up the computer, no tech support helped
I bought this card thinking that it would be a simple installation. I am running Windows XP and have all the requirements met with eas. I am also Cisco sertified so I know what I am doing. I read the instructions on the POSTER and started the installation but when it got to 95% it just locked up the machine. I never have complete lockups since I installed windows XP on an NTFS format hard drive....
Strengths: Nice sound
Weakness: Doesn't work well with windows XP all the time out of box webpage is horrible for understanding/ downloading what driver updates you want. Never got it to work on first installation try.
Well... The sound quality of this card is crazy and for gaming/watching dvd's azesome. But that's it. I have never been able to install sucessfully a sb live audigy or audigy 2 card. Seems that there is a bug with windows XP and errors with blah.dll cannot be found, please reinstall. Yeah, tried that and outside of the fact that their site goes in circles thier own drivers part of the wepage was...
Strengths: Decent sound, when working
Weakness: drivers just plain suck
I have installed this card twice, once on WXP, and now on W2K. It took me forever to get it to work on XP, it was not just a matter of no sound, or crashing games, like in a normal bad install, nooooo, this baby locks up the whole system. It crashes both xp and w2k on startup. I mean total lock ups, BSODs, system freezes, and restarts on loading. Major havoc. On w2k it was on a fresh install,...
Strengths: very good sound playback of recordings, its awsome ...i am no computer pro but i instaled i no problem and it has never crashed my computer !i dont know what these other retards are talking about.....
Weakness: needs more inputs and better ones i had to buy all sorts of adapters to modify it to my home studio
i purchased it at a very reasonable price hoping i could use it to start a little home recording studio ...because i am on a budjet i cannot afford a rack mountable $1000.00 sound card! after buying the nessacary adapters i hooked it up to my mixing counsoul and low and behold presto ...i have a recording studio i run reason cubase and fruity loops simaltainiously without a hitch.... so if your...
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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card
Strengths: Great sound quality. Plenty of control. Very simple install. (XP Pro)
Weakness: downloaded software updates sometimes "break" the Audigy software
The Audigy 2 is a MAJOR improvement over the Audigy. This card sounds great and practically installs itself. I've installed 3 in computers I've built over the past 9-12 months (All WIndows XP Pro) and they have worked spectacularly. I haven't had any problems with freezes related tothe sound card during any games or other applications. But then again I always had the latest drivers and patches...
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