Sudhian Media has posted an new article: "Creative Labs Extigy: An Audio Upgrade for Your SFF?"
There can be no doubt that motherboard-integrated sound solutions have come on in leaps and bounds over the past eighteen months or so, but for the real computer audio enthusiast these integrated solutions have yet to meet the high standards of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and digital-to-analog converter (DAC), digital signal processing and connectivity that separate solutions offer. The launch by Creative Labs of the Sound Blaster Audigy in August of 2001 set a new standard in PC audio which integrated solutions have yet to meet, and the bar was raised even higher last September with the release of the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 .Read more