Generally good review of the hardware, but what about the drivers? After waiting almost two years since the release of the original Audigy to get drivers that don't stutter in Win2K or bluescreen on a dual-processor machine I have serious doubts about any future Creative products. Creative never even took the problem seriously until they discovered that the hyperthreading Pentium 4's had the same problems.

Creative may have hardware that looks good on paper, but we need drivers to actually make the hardware work. If they put half the effort into their drivers as they do into their marketing, they might actually be able to earn their reputation as market leaders.

Try running this sample on your Audigy 2 Platinum eX and find out how bad intermodulation distortion it produces!

BEWARE! The sample contains almost full amplitude high frequency almost inaudible component at c. 19,5 kHz. Be very careful with your playback equipment so that you do NOT blow your tweeters/headphones. The initial tones (audible) in the test file should be at very faint (barely audible) volume, so that the high frequency full amplitude signal later in the sample does not blow your equipment.

http://fb2k-plugins.hydrogenaudio.org/test/udial.ape

As you can hear, the best of what Creative has to offer distorts this sample audibly really bad.

I have tested Terratec and RME cards and they play back this signal cleanly without any distortion.

I'm going to buy either Terratec DMX 6Fire LT or M-Audio Revolution 7.1
..which one have better sound quality ?

The lack of an internal analogue audio connector creates problems for me trying to connect my camcorder which has only composite connectors. I have a WinFast TV card which is fine for the video, but because it uses a 4-pin internal connector to a sound card I am stumped. If I try to connect the audio output from the camera to any one of the three inputs on the external Audigy2 module the signal strength must be too low as nothing can be heard. Any suggestions?

I bought this audiogy2 pack yesterday. But I had got only 3 cds in the installation kit. why ?

wot is this website all about i dont wanna hear about my sound card i am in a big mess now losing the driver .....would yu plz upload the software so dat people can download from this website.....or else plz stop leeting us know wot iis audigy cz we know about da card

Just bought this card because of this review.Was in the market for a creative soundcard with an external i/o box,need it for midi connectivity.This review informed me of everything I had been needing to know.

i own it and it good