hollo
11-10-2008, 09:28 AM
i'm looking at buying one of these in an online auction
the big question that is stopping me from wanting to pay more than $30 for it is 'is there any way to turn off resampling of standard cd audio (16 bit 44.1khz) to 48khz?'
looking here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audigy#Second_Generation
The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (September 2002) featured an updated EMU10K2 processor, sometimes referred to as EMU10K2.5, and had an audio transport (DMA engine) that could support playback at 24-bit precision up to 192 kHz (2-channel only. 6.1 limited to 96 kHz) and recording at 24-bit precision up to 96 kHz, thereby overcoming the single biggest criticism of its predecessor. However, the DSP again was limited to 16-bit at 48 kHz, so all DSP effects had to be disabled to prevent harmful resampling. Audio using 96 kHz or 192 kHz was decoded directly by a section of the card known as "p16v." For DSP effects the lower half (48 kHz) of the stream was sent to the DSP and mixed with the rest of the signal.if i'm interpreting this correctly then so long as all 'DSP' effects are turned off the 'DMA engine' would be able to play a 16 bit 44.1khz track (eg flac burnt from a CD) without resampling?
asking here because there are conflicting views on every forum i go to. what do you guys say?
the big question that is stopping me from wanting to pay more than $30 for it is 'is there any way to turn off resampling of standard cd audio (16 bit 44.1khz) to 48khz?'
looking here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audigy#Second_Generation
The Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (September 2002) featured an updated EMU10K2 processor, sometimes referred to as EMU10K2.5, and had an audio transport (DMA engine) that could support playback at 24-bit precision up to 192 kHz (2-channel only. 6.1 limited to 96 kHz) and recording at 24-bit precision up to 96 kHz, thereby overcoming the single biggest criticism of its predecessor. However, the DSP again was limited to 16-bit at 48 kHz, so all DSP effects had to be disabled to prevent harmful resampling. Audio using 96 kHz or 192 kHz was decoded directly by a section of the card known as "p16v." For DSP effects the lower half (48 kHz) of the stream was sent to the DSP and mixed with the rest of the signal.if i'm interpreting this correctly then so long as all 'DSP' effects are turned off the 'DMA engine' would be able to play a 16 bit 44.1khz track (eg flac burnt from a CD) without resampling?
asking here because there are conflicting views on every forum i go to. what do you guys say?