Soundblaster Audigy or Asus CrystalSound 2.0

Highlander89

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Hello folks,

So I have this olde Creative Soundblaster Audigy SE lying around somewhere. Do you think it's better than my onboard Asus CrystalSound 2.0?

Haven't really used the Soundblaster that much.
I'm liking the Asus software.

Plan to connect the soundcard to a Behringer mixer, then got some high end studio monitors from Genelec that I connect to the mixer, along with a Logitech subwoofer that's powering a Philips home theater centerpiece speaker.

Will perhaps do some recording later on as well. But mostly just for playing music.
 
Hello folks,

So I have this olde Creative Soundblaster Audigy SE lying around somewhere. Do you think it's better than my onboard Asus CrystalSound 2.0?

Haven't really used the Soundblaster that much.
I'm liking the Asus software.

Plan to connect the soundcard to a Behringer mixer, then got some high end studio monitors from Genelec that I connect to the mixer, along with a Logitech subwoofer that's powering a Philips home theater centerpiece speaker.

Will perhaps do some recording later on as well. But mostly just for playing music.

The Asus Crystal Sound will leave the Audigy in the dust mate, It was a good card in it's day though.

If you want a soundcard stay away from Creative and get a Xonar, they make love to your ears with the right cans ^_^
 
€150 ? :eek: wow that's expensive, It's roughly €110 over in the UK, Sometimes lower on special offer days.

Well cheapest I could find was 129€, delivered 144€.

Having just one rich guy to sleep with would eliminate this problem. Oh well, I guess it's off to the dating sites then -.-
 
Actually guys the Audigy series were one of their greats, they were king of the hill before X-Fi chips came a long...

NEW creative stuff is completely shit, but their older cards really were the dogs danglies for a while. Which is why it annoys me so much that they steered over to software-based solutions and still charge what they charge for the shit cards.

Audigy's were beasts in the day, and even helped to give you more frames in games by offloading sound processing from CPU's. :P
 
I actually loved my Audigy 2 platinum. Plugging my guitar in with zero latency.. oh those were the days.

Even now my STX has just a few ms delay causing that slight delay from plucking a string. makes me resort to onboard audio for guitar and STX for everything else :(
 
I actually loved my Audigy 2 platinum. Plugging my guitar in with zero latency.. oh those were the days.

Even now my STX has just a few ms delay causing that slight delay from plucking a string. makes me resort to onboard audio for guitar and STX for everything else :(
delay with an stx? that's not good. What are they going for, like 150€, one would expect them to not have any delay then. Although I suppose they are made more for gamers who want good sound, than musicians recording stuff expecting no latency.

on another note, ordered me a new psu for the behringer mixer since I lost the old one. Funny thing is the psu is half the price of a new mixer.
Let's see how DHL's delivery works this time. Have always had good result with ordering stuff from germany, both from aquatuning and thomann.
 
delay with an stx? that's not good. What are they going for, like 150€, one would expect them to not have any delay then. Although I suppose they are made more for gamers who want good sound, than musicians recording stuff expecting no latency.

on another note, ordered me a new psu for the behringer mixer since I lost the old one. Funny thing is the psu is half the price of a new mixer.
Let's see how DHL's delivery works this time. Have always had good result with ordering stuff from germany, both from aquatuning and thomann.

I have to admit, I had MUCH better input/output ASIO latency on an X-Fi based card, than my STX when trying to play Rocksmith.. it's pretty bad (unplayable) on the STX. Which is why i'll be putting another build together to play Rocksmith on.
 
I have to admit, I had MUCH better input/output ASIO latency on an X-Fi based card, than my STX when trying to play Rocksmith.. it's pretty bad (unplayable) on the STX. Which is why i'll be putting another build together to play Rocksmith on.


If you use the nocable patch and plug into your onboard audio there will be no delay. And its the only time I ever use onboard audio.

What I like about Audigy was that it could manage guitar input and also allow music to be played simultaneously. Current setup will change input source the moment I try to play the guitar and block music/any other sound.

Basically it overrides everything and gives the guitar program priority. Doesnt matter if its rocksmith, guitar rig or amplitube. That being said, the quality of STX is still fantastic. It just cant be used for instruments due to that incredibly small latency.
 
If you use the nocable patch and plug into your onboard audio there will be no delay. And its the only time I ever use onboard audio.

What I like about Audigy was that it could manage guitar input and also allow music to be played simultaneously. Current setup will change input source the moment I try to play the guitar and block music/any other sound.

Basically it overrides everything and gives the guitar program priority. Doesnt matter if its rocksmith, guitar rig or amplitube. That being said, the quality of STX is still fantastic. It just cant be used for instruments due to that incredibly small latency.

what's the nocable patch?
 
what's the nocable patch?

its a "legal" crack of sorts. You still connect to ubisoft servers etc, it just allows you to use a real guitar cable instead of the shiity usb one that breaks and develops static sound. it uses its own exe file to run rocksmith I think instead of the original (which remains untouched in destination folder)
 
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