Re: [Alsa-user] Possible upgrade in the horizon, Live! Vs Audigy Vs Audigy 2 in Linux.

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:02 -0500, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> I know they both will stisfy my needs just fine, however the 2 ZS has
> a lot of features that the Audigy 1 lacks, and I would like to know
> what advantages/disadvantages would there be. I know all there is to
> know about about EAX and stuff (been a proud Linux audio user with my
> Live! since late 90s)... So what would be the sound quality difference
> between the three cards (Live! Value, A1 and A2ZS)? Does the A1
> support 96/192 output? How 'bout performance and latency? 

Performance and latency will be about the same across all SBLive!,
Audigy, and Audigy1 cards - up to 16 channels full duplex with latency
as low as 0.66 ms (1.3 is more useful) and minimal CPU usage even on a
slower machine.

The Audigy1 does not support 24/96 while the Audigy2 models do.  The
main difference from my perspective is whether you want the extra
channels provided by the livedrive or not.

Sound quality should get better going from the Live to Audigy to
Audigy2.

Lee