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1996-2024
by TSW
(Nikolay Tuzhilin)
Last updated: 02.01.2024
The following specifications are copied from Creative web site (original).
PCB pictures of Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS:
Introduction
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DVD-Audio: The only PC solution to enable the Advanced Resolution™ era of 24-bit music fidelity with 192kHz in stereo and 96kHz in 5.1
- 106dB SNR: The best Sound Blaster® clarity ever, rivaling home-theater audio quality for music, games, and movies
- 6.1 Surround Sound: Experience superior multi-channel audio from MP3s, CDs, 3D games and Dolby Digital® EX movies with a rear center speaker
- Creative MediaSource™ Player: The most exciting features yet with library search, automatic playlist volume matching and hiss removal for MP3s
- Audigy™ 2 Chip & EAX® ADVANCED HD™: The ultimate platform for delivering unparalleled audio realism from the hottest gaming titles and pure 24-bit/96kHz recording to capture subtle details in your audio creation
For the highest quality audio experience, 16-bit is just not good enough - upgrade to Sound Blaster® Audigy™ 2 to hear the amazing difference that 24-bit ADVANCED HD™ makes! It delivers astonishing clarity and audio details that are inaudible on current 16-bit audio solutions so that your music, movies and games will come to life!
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 also offers Advanced Resolution™ DVD-Audio playback up to an astonishing 24-bit/192kHz in stereo and delivers an ultra-quiet 106dB SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) that's far superior than ordinary CD and MP3 playback. With 6.1 speaker support, your games and Dolby Digital® EX movies will sound more encompassing than ever before. The new Creative MediaSource™ music player will revolutionize your MP3 experience with its intuitive interface and rich feature set, while the Audigy 2 chip with EAX® ADVANCED HD™ support delivers awesome power for gaming. Get Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for 24-bit/192kHz audio fidelity - it delivers simply the best audio quality for music, movies, and games - nothing else comes close.
Features
Highest Resolution Sound Blaster for Playback and RecordingSound That Is Faithful to The Original
- At 24-bit/192kHz, all the subtle elements and the ambience of the original recording are accurately captured and reproduced on your PC.
- The premium quality 24-bit/ 192kHz DACs and improved audio path of the new Audigy 2 chip ensure "hiss-free" audio fidelity and exceptional clarity with a spectacular Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of 106dB surpassing most high-end home stereo equipment.
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 is the perfect platform for Windows Media Audio 9 content, including full 24-bit/96kHz audio resolution in discrete 5.1 channel surround sound.
- 24-bit/96kHz recording capability allows you to directly capture the subtleties of your source material to your PC without any detrimental re-sampling processes.
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 delivers advanced resolution DVD-Audio at up to 24-bit/192kHz in stereo. Experience powerful audio separation and depth in 5.1 at 24-bit/96kHz.
- "Lossy" compression formats like MP3 and Dolby Digital 5.1 deliver reduced audio fidelity. The "Lossless" (MLP) compression format provides up to 5 times more details for DVD-Audio. This is fully supported by Sound Blaster Audigy 2 which ensures that the content is identical to the recording, so that none of the original detail is lost.
- DVD-Audio boasts a dynamic range of 144dB as opposed to other formats limited to 96dB. This broader dynamic range is capable of capturing the entire frequency range of a live symphony orchestra for a true-to-life audio experience.
6.1 Support in Existing DirectSound® 3D Games
- Multi-channel sound is perfect for gaming, and now with 6.1 support, you can experience a discrete rear center channel even in existing DirectSound 3D games with improved ambient sounds and thunderous positional effects that will completely immerse you in your game!
- Never have an opponent sneak up on you again. 6.1 support along with 24-bit Advanced HD gives you the edge!
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 has a built-in Dolby Digital EX decoder for the most dramatic movie audio. With full support for 7 audio channels, you can enjoy the excitement and power of a movie theater experience on your PC.
- The rear center channel reproduces important audio cues between the rear left and rear right channels, especially during fly-overs and fly-bys, creating an intensified realism in movies.
- Enjoy a home-theater like ambience with your stereo music files like CD or MP3 by playing them back in virtual 6.1 surround sound with Creative's proprietary CMSS® 3D technology.
- Being THX®-Certified means that the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 has passed the most stringent and rigorous audio quality and performance tests set by THX, the audio experts in the movie industry, so you can be assured that the awesome THX audio experience you've enjoyed in the cinema will be reproduced faithfully on your PC.
Next Generation Digital Music Player:
- Manage, create, burn, play, record, search and enhance digital music easily.
- Organize and manage your music and MP3 library with features such as quick music search engine, automatic music library import and MP3 tag editing features.
- Create your own music files with a high quality, full bit-rate 320 kbps encoder and 24x accelerated MP3 ripper or burn them to create your own mixes (CDR/CDRW required)
- Playback Dolby Digital (AC-3), CD-Audio, MP3, WMA and more!
- Enhance all your digital music content with single click access to EAX® ADVANCED HD™ features like:
- SVM™ (Smart Volume Management): Even out the volume during playback across content like MP3s ripped at different volume levels
- CMSS® 3D: Up-mix stereo content up to 6.1 channels or experience "virtual 3D" with headphones and 2-speakers. Also playback Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD movies in virtual 6.1 surround sound.
- Audio Clean-Up: Now you can remove unwanted "hiss" and scratches from MP3s, recordings from old tapes/LPs or "live" playback through an external device.
- Time Scaling: Increase or decrease the playback speed of your MP3s and other audio content without altering the pitch. Ideal for playing back lectures, audio books or learning guitar solos.
- EAX® ADVANCED HD™ Environment Effects: Add depth and warmth to your music by accurately simulating real-world environments.
- Transfer content seamlessly at 400Mbps from your PC to devices such as hard-disk based digital audio players, DV Camcorders, external hard drives/CD-RWs and more. oLink up to other Sound Blaster Audigy products or FireWire compliant cards for LAN-like networking of PCs for multi-player gaming, peer-to-peer networking and file sharing.
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 can process multiple simultaneous EAX® ADVANCED HD™ effects in hardware. This enables the gripping realism of technologies such as Multi-Environment™, Environment Morphing™, Environment Reflections™, Environment Panning™ and Environment Filtering™ to create a gameplay environment that is unbelievably true-to-life.
- Sound Blaster Audigy 2 also supports fast hardware mixing of up to 64 simultaneous 3D voices which ensure smooth delivery of audio details in the midst of intense gaming action.
Specifications
Audio Performance
Audigy 2
Audigy 2 ZS
2V Rated Output
1V Rated Output
Stereo Output
106dB
102dB
Front and Rear Channels
106dB
102dB
Center, Subwoofer and Rear Center
~90dB
~86dB
2V Rated Output
1V Rated Output
Stereo Output
108dB
102dB
Front and Rear Channels
108dB
102dB
Center, Subwoofer and Rear Center
108dB
~102dB
- Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise at 1kHz (AES17) = 0.004% (1V, 2V Rated Output)
- Frequency Response (+/-3dB, 24-bit/96kHz input ) = <10Hz to 46kHz (1V, 2V Rated Output)
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- Creative Hardware synthesizer (2x16 Channels) with 64-voice polyphony featuring E-MU®'s patented 8-point interpolation technology for accurate sample reproduction
- Creative Software synthesizer - multi timbral wave-table (16 Channels)
- IEEE® 1394 / FireWire® / i-Link® compatible interface with up to 400Mbps transfer rate
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 On-Board Connectors
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Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS On-Board Connectors
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