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Creative Audigy Rumor

by Maarten Goldstein Mar 06, 2002 1:15pm CST tags: Creative, Rumor
Tech Report is reporting about a rumor going around about the SoundBlaster Audigy. Some people are saying the Emu 10K2 used in the Creative soundcard is nothing more than an Emu 10K1 with FireWire support, though apparently the FireWire support is seperate from the Emu chip. The Emu 10K1 is found in the Live! series of soundcards. Supposedly, someone from China or Taiwan has hacked Live drivers to act like an Audigy card. Creative marketed the Audigy as a completely new, improved product, replacing the Live cards.

Now, even if this is all true, I'm not sure this one rises to the level of real news. ...
But it would seem that we've seen yet another demonstration of how the audio market differs from real, semiconductor-driven markets like graphics and processors. If ATI or AMD were to launch a "new" product three years after the last revision, give it a new name, and deliver a warmed-over version of the same chip with one new feature, we'd crucify 'em. And rightly so.
For Creative and the market it leads, this kind of thing is par for the course.

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