Creative Announces Extigy

It's an outie as opposed to an innie!

Will the Win2k/XP drivers suck for this as well?

24 bit sound this time around huh? Unlike the Audigy..

My old Live! Value still works great. I just have a lamer setup (headsets, that's it), and it's good enough for gaming and that kinda stuff.

It's a trend... MOTU (Mark of the Unicorn), MIDIMan and EDIROL (The component side of Roland) have already released professional or semiprofessional multichannel 24/96 USB devices.

Word of warning, they're fine for playback, but they suck for multitrack recording (And the Extigy will too) due to the limited bandwidth of USB (12 Mbps if you're EXTREMELY lucky). But anyway it's good to have another product in the market and the price seems right.

BTW if you do want to do multitrack recording and don't want to get a PCI based system then look at the firewire based units like the MOTU 828 (Which is used by Depeche Mode to record live shows and in the studio)

Firewire will eventually prevail, but the price point of USB audio is good for beginners and bargain hunters as long as you can live with the limitations

I hate my SB Live! Platinum. Creative's Win2K driver support sucks beanbag.

I want a SB IDEigy, which plugs into my secondary channel and makes my balls vibrate during POST.

The further away from my computer, the better.

I think I'll be sticking with my live-just recently I've noticed soundblaster live Plat's on store shelfs-must be all the units they haven't sold.

That has to be the worst name for a sound card/device EVAR!

DARK JEDI RULE