PLEASE HELP! Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 Platinum

Ok, I have a question about the Audigy 2 and the Audigy 2 Platinum. I was under the assumption that the cards themselves were virtually the same card, but the Platinum has the expansion bay card as well as more software. Are there any differences in the cards themselves? Please help!

However, the Platinum eX card is different from the Audigy 2 and regular Platinum.

- Daniel (daniel1113[at]comcast[dot]net)

Yes you are correct about the Audigy 2 Platinum eX. It is a completely different animal, consisting of a smaller PCI card and an external component, which appears to do most of the work. I am not sure what the supposed advantage is to this type of setup, myself, and given the <A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/video/20020405/extigy-01.html" target="_new">stink</A> over Creative's prior external offering, the Extigy, I would be very much inclined to recommend against buying the eX.

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There is one big advantage to having an external box and that is for recording. The external boxes are much quieter because they have the ADC where they don't have to deal with all the EM noise inside a computer. I have an Audigy2 Platinum and I can tell you from my own experience that recordings made from both the RCA ins and the 1/4" analog jacks in the breakout box are noisy. Not an unacceptable amount of noise, but not suitable for professional quality recording. Having said that, the card sounds great in games and playing music, and for the recording I do at home (demos, rough ideas - any real recording gets done on a mixing board) it gets the job done.

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