new price: $199
starting bid: $50

high definition 3D audio, dolby digital and all that surround sound stuff, remote control (supposed to be fantastic, but i've never used it), all kinds of connectivity, gold everywhere, a crapload of software, due to all the groundbreaking technologies when this soundcard premiered, it is still one of the best soundcards today...

i bought it brand new about 4 years ago. it still works fine. i still have the orignal box, manuals, and probably about 95% of everything that came with it. only thing that may be missing might be a cable or something that 99% of you don't need, or something else trivial like that.

this soundcard is still top-notch. for example: cd quality is 16bits/44.1KHz, but the audigy platinum can produce 24bits/96KHz quality (a first when the soundcard premiered).

http://www.guru3d.com/review/creative/audigy/

the internal soundcard:


Internal Audigy Drive Front Panel Connectors
PCM SPDIF In and Out (RCA/Coaxial Jack)
Headphone Out (1/4" Stereo Jack with Volume Control)
Line In 2 (1/4" Stereo Jack, shared with Microphone In 2)
Microphone In 2 (1/4" Jack with Gain control)
MIDI In (mini DIN)
MIDI Out (mini DIN)
SB1394 port
Infra-red Receiver
Optical SPDIF In and Out
Stereo Auxiliary In (2 x RCA/Coaxial Jack)

All are gold plated, with the exception of the optical, where photons don’t know much about electrical friction.


32-bit Professional Quality Effects Engine
Creative's Audigy™ patented effects processor
Support for real-time digital effects like reverb, chorus, normalizer, pitch shifter, or distortion across any audio source
Capable of processing, mixing, and positioning audio streams using up to 131 available hardware channels
Full 32-bit digital mixer maintains all sound mixing in the digital domain, eliminating noise from the signal
Customizable Plug-In Effects Architecture allows new audio effects to be downloaded from the Web via CreativeWare


High Definition Audio Quality
Playback of 64 audio channels, each with its own independent sample rate.
16-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion of analog inputs at 48kHz sample rate.
24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion of digital sources at 48kHz to analog 5.1 speaker output
16-bit recording with sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, and 48kHz
Supports Sony® / Philips® Digital Interface (SPDIF) format input signal of up to 24-bit/96kHz quality
SPDIF output up to 24-bit resolution at selectable sampling rate of 44.1, 48, or 96kHz
Low latency multi-track recording with ASIO™ support
Don’t litter… just checking if you’re reading…


EAX®, ADVANCED HD™, Advanced Audio and 3D Audio Technology
Hardware acceleration of EAX ADVANCED HD for games
User-selectable EAX ADVANCED HD music presets, pre-configurable DSP modes simulating various acoustic environments
Advanced time-scaling
Audio Cleanup
Upgradeable 3D audio architecture for future improvements.
Dolby® Digital audio decoding to 5.1 speaker channels in both analog and digital modes.
Optimized, user-selectable settings for two, four, or six speakers, headphones, and external A/V amplifiers
Creative Multi Speaker Surround™ (CMSS) technology places any monaural or stereo source in a 360° audio space
I know there’s a kitchen sink in the specs somewhere!


SB1394 Connectivity
High speed connection to IEEE® 1394 enabled devices with up to 400Mbps transfer rate
Hot-plug support for ease of connecting or disconnecting external devices
Interconnection of up to 63 devices for peer-to-peer communication
SB1394 Certification Program thoroughly tests and certifies participating vendors' 1394-enabled devices with Sound Blaster Audigy for optimal performance and ease of use
Don’t eat yellow snow.


Realistic Wave-Table Synthesis
Creative's Audigy music synthesis engine
64-voice hardware polyphony with E-mu® Systems, Inc.'s patented 8-point interpolation technology that reduces distortion to inaudible levels
Uses SoundFont® technology for user-definable wave-table sample sets
Unlimited sample size can be loaded into host memory for professional music reproduction (limited to available system memory size)
Scalable PCI wave-table synthesis architecture with multi-timbre capability
48 MIDI channels with 128 GM & GS compatible instruments and 10 drum kit.
1 Kitchen sink.


MIDI Interface / Joystick Port
Support for analog and digital or DirectInput™ game devices
Support for two simultaneous MIDI devices with Sound Blaster Audigy drive (upgrade option)


Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum On-Board Connectors
Analog / Digital Out (Analog Center & Subwoofer / 6-channel SPDIF Output)
Line in
Microphone in
Line level out (Front) / Headphone out
Line level out (Rear)
SB1394 port
Telephone Answering Device in
Analog CD Audio in
Digital CD Audio in
Expansion header to an external 15-pin MIDI / Joystick port
Internal SB1394 header to Sound Blaster Audigy drive
Expansion header to the Sound Blaster Audigy drive


[Edited on February 19, 2006 at 11:27 PM. Reason : ]

2/19/2006 11:16:05 PM

$10

2/20/2006 12:36:47 AM

15

2/20/2006 1:17:28 AM

25

2/20/2006 3:41:16 AM

$30

2/20/2006 7:48:36 AM

35

i wonder if we will ever meet starting bid, rofl

2/20/2006 8:34:30 AM

i'd let you have it for $35, but let's keep the bidding going for just another day or two.

2/20/2006 8:52:18 AM

This thing isn't $199 new. It was 4 years ago, but not now.

2/20/2006 12:19:00 PM

i believe i mentioned that, but admit that it might've not been clear.

$199 new 4 years ago. i believe the audigy 2, which is 3 years old or so, still retails for ~$70 new.

2/20/2006 8:56:12 PM

40

2/20/2006 9:19:17 PM

^^ I see now where you netioned later on that you bought it 4 years ago. I didn't mean to hate on your thread, but I like true and clarity in my advertising. This is a good card by the way. How's the XP driver support?

2/21/2006 12:42:19 AM

flawless on my xp professional sp2. it ran flawlessly without the sp2 also.

2/21/2006 12:44:30 AM

flawless on any OS

2/21/2006 12:46:07 AM

bttt.

2/22/2006 8:53:43 AM