Why I buy this one ?
- The only PC solution to enable the Advanced Resolution era of 24-bit music fidelity with 192 kHz in stereo and 96 kHz in 5.1
- The best Sound Blaster clarity ever, rivaling home-theater audio quality for music, games, and movies
- Experience superior multi-channel audio from MP3s, CDs, 3-D games, and Dolby Digital EX movies with a rear center speaker
- The most exciting features yet with library search, automatic playlist volume matching, and hiss removal for MP3s
- Pure recording path captures the quality and subtle details of your audio creations

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What our customer's say!

"Worked, Happy and Now with the Music", Everything in life should be this simple.

If you want a basic card for your basic sound look no further. I'm not going to bother you with detailed tripe because I really can't hear the difference and if you are playing 128 mp3s you won't ether.

We plugged it in, loaded the software and she ran from the get go. Darn happy and come to think of it we have never had a Creative Lap product that we had to shoot.

One thing, see if you can buy one used. Save some money folks.

Good luck and don't forget as Red Green says, "if the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy".

Mike

"Hardware is exceptional; drivers are abysmal.", I use a couple of Audigy 2ZS in my recording business. No other soundcard on the market, then or now, offers the flexibility and just great sound capturing capabilities of this card. Interestingly, all the later Creative products no longer support 192k/24 bit sampling, so this card is truly unique. The only other manufactured card supporting this brilliant sampling clarity costs US$250 more!

If you only get a hold of one of these cards to see how good audio CAN be on your computer, do it. It's jaw-droppingly good.

But I have to reinforce the driver problems described by others. I have dealt directly with the driver team at CL, and to say they are unhelpful is an understatement. Early drivers (e.g. those shipped on the CD) had some pretty bad flaws, but at least they allowed the card to work to its full potential (which is really astonishingly good!).

All the latest drivers (since late 2005) use the Creative "universal" driver model, which means they are designed to work correctly ONLY with the newer, low market level CL cards. All the new drivers have significant bugs and "showstopper" flaws, and completely prevent the card from being used properly (i.e. nowhere near it's actual technical specifications). Then there's a whole other discussion about CL supporting more than one card in any computer system. Old drivers worked beautifully with multiple cards, but new drivers just lock out inputs and confuse mixer settings and just don't work, full stop.

So if you want one of the clearest, most flexible, highest sample rate cards ever on the PC market up to this year, get one of these if you can (I've bought 3 spare cards in case any of my current ones die, as CL no longer support the product at all). Just don't expect the latest "mass market", "cloth-eared consumer" Creative labs drivers to work properly, and don't expect CL to help you with any technical problems. Ever.

To be honest, my next card will be anything BUT a Creative Labs product. But for me, the Audigy 2ZS is the BMW of the older audio card market. Have a drive, if you can. You just probably wouldn't want to own one.

"Frustrating", Alright...when I can actually get this darn thing to work right it is an EXCELLENT sound card..But over the past few years I've had this thing I have had to reinstall the drives numerous times....I mean...much more than I should have to...This program will only function right for me for about a few months before I have to reinstall it again. I have updated my drivers and I'm sure nothing is wrong with my hard drive, still get the same problem...suddenly something stops working right, this time it was the fact that I can only choose 4.1 speakers..not even headphones or anything else...I dont even have 4.1 speakers....I have 6.1...Last time I couldn't change the EAX settings from default, so everything sounded horrible, the time before that I couldn't even open the EAX console period, mostly it's just problems with their EAX software. Which if you dont use everything sounds much worse by the way. If you can look past that problem though....great sound card...creative just needs to learn how to program decent software, cause the drivers for this sound card are absolutely horrid.

"Software was written by gibbon monkeys.", I have had this card for 2 years now and it has worked fine for me as long as I didn't play with Creative's drivers or software.

All of a sudden, sound quit coming out of my rear speakers ONLY in certain Creative applications, and the speaker calibrator quit putting out any sound. So I uninstalled the drivers and tried to reinstall them.

Be aware that -

1. Creative will NEVER offer a driver pack on its webpage. You MUST, I repeat MUST start with your original CD to load some drivers, and then you can get Creative's patches from their webpage. Now that my CD is 2 years old, there appears to be a conflict with *its* drivers and creative's patches. Apparently not enough bananas were bought for the gibbons, and they wandered out to the jungle in search of nourishment before finishing a full driver package.

2. There is a good chance that once you go to reinstall your drivers, you will get a "Hardware not found" message (see Creative's tech support forum) and not be able to install the drivers. Want another banana, Creative programmer? OOO OOO OO AHH AHHH AHHH!

My card is now a steaming pile of $100 poo since their driver system is not working for me.

Wish I had my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz back.

"No input", I had this card installed in my Dell when I ordered it and I will say it does sound great BUT there is one proplem with it that I need and that is the input will not work. I called Creative Labs, Dell and got no where. Now maybe not many people need to use the input jack but it is a must for me. My old computer had a simple card but it did work. So if you want just great sound, this card is good but if you need to record albums, etc. then forget it, this card won't do it, or at least mine won't.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Review from an audiophile.", PROs: GREAT sound, Games are even deeper, digital audio is amazing. THIS IS A SOLID CARD. clear highs, superb mids, and powerful lows can be produced. If you are hardcore music or gamer then get this card. NOT at a retail store but online where the price is normal, I paid 100.00 (doh!!).

CONs: Expensive, if you are a casual music person and gamer and don't need the best for your computer then pay half and go with SoundBlaster Live!, it is 16 bit, not the Audigy 24 bit. Live! still sounds fantastic, but Audigy 2 is better. Some people have had conflicts with XP, make sure you have XP service pack 1 installed on your system, that "should" fix the issue. If you are NOT an audio nut then you will notice some diffrence in quality but not much. I notice.

REMEMBER!!!! If you want to get this card and are using cheap speakers then PLEASE get good speakers w/Sub first (I could not consider myself an audiophile and not say that) and then the Audigy, after all it is the speakers that bring the sound out to your ears right? If you have live! and cheap speakers, new speakers will help give better sound to the live! card!

speakers+Audigy 2=BLISS

"Outstanding Sound Quality", This sound card produces the best sound quality I've ever heard from any sound card. The clarity and crispness is unmatched in games and music. It definately outdoes my old Live! card. I highly recommend this card to music lovers and gamers alike.

"well worth every cent", bought this card about a month ago and finally installed it on an hp 9995 with windows xp.....piece of cake to do...installed the card into computer and then software....had NO PROBLEMS AT ALL....the software disabled my built in sound card that was not removeable....the sound is awesome this card is well worth the money you will not be dissapointed at all.they should install these cards in the computers when they are built....

"Ultimate Sound in One Neat Little Package", Creative Labs has long been known as the definitive manufacturer for sound cards and computer audio. That being said, the Audigy 2 can be considered the pinnacle of their art.
Without having to blow your entire paycheck on the Platinum series, the Audigy 2 card provides top notch sound for gamers and audiophiles. It also enhances your DVD viewing experience and allows you to get the surround sound quality that your collection deserves.

"Just my 2 cents....", This is one of the most talked about sound card these days, above this being the platinum edition. For the hard core gamer, the movie fan & mp3 listener, this card will do the job just right. I purchased this card for a new system I built, and it's performed like a charm since installation.
The quality of the sound is clearly above my old sound blaster live card. If used with high quality speakers, the sound card will really bring out that monster inside. You'll hear music, movies, even games with such clarity, that you may even hear sounds that are there that you never heard before.
One of my favorite features of this card is the EAX Console. Here you can choose from a wide variety of effects for your audio, which, again, if combined with good speakers, can make the listener feel right in the action. Also, included is a creative player, which I do not use, but I'm glad it's there just in case I get tired of my current player and want to test it out.
You also have diagnostics, speaker settings, surround mixer, & other features.
You can easily combined a speaker system with 5.1 speakers; that's going to add a lot of joy to your listening experience.
If you want to listen to your music in a different level, want to experience games & movies in a better way, then definitely get this audio card. It beats the sound from the built-in audio controller that comes with most of today's motherboards.
The difference will be heard.