Doc, as far as I know, besides it is or not a good recording card, it DOES
record at those frequencies with no internal resampling.

So, go for it and have fun!

Anyway, I really would like to listen to some works done from someone who's
making all this noise about it. It is not enough to have a kick-ass sound
card to have a good product...

Show your mixes instead of blahblah-ing....

Claudio

"Doc" ha scritto nel messaggio
k.net...
Hope someone can clarify an issue for me. Will an Audigy (Audigy2
actually)
record in 96khz/24 bit? According to Creative, it will go up to 192kHz in
stereo. If so, is it a true 96/24 & 192/24, not internally resampled as I
understand it does to record to 44.1/16 and lower? Or is that not correct?
Or, if so, does it matter? How do other soundcards do it?

Per the Creative website:

"24-bit Digital-to-Analog conversion during playback with sampling rates
of
8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz in 7.1 mode and up to
192kHz in stereo mode
24-bit Analog-to-Digital conversion during recording in 8, 16 or 24-bit at
sampling rates of 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 and 96kHz
SPDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) input at up to 24-bit/ 96kHz
quality
SPDIF output up to 24-bit at 48 or 96kHz
ASIO drivers for low latency (=2ms) multi-track playback and recording at
16-bit/48kHz"

If in fact it has this capability, do I need to do anything else besides
set
the recording program - i.e. Soundforge to record at 96/24?

What about the setting for "32-bit floating point". When/why would you use
that bit rate? Can an Audigy take advantage of it?

The "why" is that I want to see if I can detect any difference between
something recorded at these rates compared to 44.1 / 16-bit.

Btw, if you want to go on an anti-Creative tirade, that's fine since I'm
trying to get to the nitty gritty truth, but please back up any bashing
with
data/references/explanations.

Thanks for all shared wisdom.