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Vem vill ha ett audigy när det både har sämre ljud än ett sonic fury och betydligt mer krångel i spel pga drivisar

Let's start with the Audigy since it's probably the most high profile market competitor:
Right up front, I'll say that Creative Labs' flagship product is not a premium grade audio quality solution in the consumer soundcard genre. In comparison to the Santa Cruz, the highs and midrange of the Audigy are harsh, much less so than what the Live! produced but still noticeably so. As an example, acoustic instruments such as guitar don't have the proper decay and are somewhat brash and in-your-face. The bass also has problems - boosting the lower frequencies via software results in distortion quite easily. Finally, the highs suffer from rolloff well within the range of average hearing (16Khz). Since many of the multimedia speakers from companies like Altec Lansing or Creative Labs are incapable of producing sound above those frequencies (the rather poor Inspire line is a good case in point), this won't be noticeable unless you have a higher quality multimedia speaker system like the Monsoons, Polks or VideoLogics mentioned above. However, if you do have such a system, it starts to become quite noticeable, dependant of course on your musical source and material (128bit mp3s of Eminem aren't going to highlight this shortcoming but 192bit encodes of Ottmar Liebert surely will). Other issues with the Audigy are the claims on the box of 24bit playback and 100db SNR, both of which are "creative" in their truthfulness (pun intended). The Audigy is not at all a 24bit soundcard and only utilizes 24bit sound for playback of DVDs. In addition, since all internal sound operations are16bit, the claim of 24bit output for DVD playback is watered down as well. The Audigy has to downsample the 24bit DVD source to 16bit for internal processing and then upsample it again to 24bit for output. Finally, the actual SNR of the card is a lot closer to the mid 80s rather than 100.

The frequency response curve of the card indicates whether it reproduces all the frequencies of the sound spectrum equally well. The test measured from 20 Hz to 20 KHz, the accepted limits of human hearing. Our results show a nice response curve, and although it is not perfect, especially above 16 KHz, it still ought to satisfy most users.

Conclusion

The Audigy soundcards retain the versatility that has given the brand its reputation, while coming very close to professional audio cards in audio performance. Audiophiles and videophiles will be satisfied with the performance and the software. Gamers have been well provided for, especially if the developers support Advanced HD in the future. The FireWire port is a very useful supplementary present. For these uses, the Player / X-Gamer version at under a $100 really offers unbeatable quality for the money.

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Ursprungligen inskrivet av totoo
Men allså... Jaha.. Vadårå? De är väl iaf bättre än Livekorten?
Var snäll och ge mig inte en massa länkar till 100 kg amerikansk text eller nåt, utan berätta gärna vad det handlar om
tack å hej

Ursprungligen inskrivet av totoo

hehe.... ursäkta mig men, horunge... hehe.. inte kan man väl seriöst gnälla på dessa kort?

Vet att det finns experter som påstår sig höra skillnad på guld och silverkablar på 10m till högtalare osv... men SERIÖST, man kan ju inte vara helt galen heller
eller har jag missat nåt som vanligt?

[B]The ratio s:n indicated by the manufacturer can only be applied to the output when the card is reading a digital source, which doesn't at all reflect a typical recording using one of the analog inputs. In practice, we achieved 96 dB here, which is excellent in view of the fact that the theoretical value is seldom reached, whatever the card.

After noting that the Sound Blaster Audigy's audio quality was above and beyond the other cards tested here, we decided to make it the underdog by putting it up against a ringer: the M-Audio Delta 66. For those who are not familiar, the Delta 66 is a professional audio card with four analog inputs and four analog outputs in a separate breakout box. The Audigy put up a good fight, but in the end the Delta 66 cleaned its clock. To quote Scott's notes on the subject: "Audigy: Quite good. Delta: F'ing perfect." While the Audigy clearly sounded better than the other cards we tested, the Delta was noticeably better than the Audigy.

[B]So let's tally the scores and see who came out on top in each of the tested areas:

Serious Sam SE WaveOut: Tie: Gamesurround Fortissimo II and Sound Blaster Audigy
Serious Sam SE DirectSound: Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
Serious Sam SE EAX: Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL
Rock MP3: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy
Classical MP3: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy
Miles A3D: Philips Acoustic Edge
Miles DirectSound 3D: Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II
Miles EAX: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy