Santa Cruz or Audigy

[Neptune5k]

I'm going to be buying a new sound card soon... and I'm deciding between the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and the Creative Labs Audigy. I'm personally leaning towards the Santa Cruz, but any feedback is cool with me.

[Hardass]

Go Santa Cruz, this from someone with 3 rigs with Soundblaster cards. 1 word Trouble. I have a santa cruz it is a sweet card.

[JBELL]

i have audigy platinum w/ live drive - and love it!!!

[JAWS]

Santa Cruz all the way! :rocker:

[TheDude]

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz love mine!:toast:

[DaGooch]

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz r0x! :)

[Neptune5k]

Originally posted by JWS
Santa Cruz all the way! :rocker:

Love the smily there.... i think that response sorta sealed the deal :D
:rocker:

[JBELL]

damn.... out gunned again

[stoopid]

I have been using the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz for ages now, on all overclocked systems, with no problems.

On top of that, I game and produce music on this system, and the line in signal is 1000 times cleaner than the SB Live card I owned (which burned me paying $90 for it new a while back, only to pay $60 for the TB at Compusa :rolleyes: ).

[LBJGH]

I have never had a problem with Creative sound cards on my VIA based AMD systems.

I currently have a SB Audigy that provides great sound and doubles for video capture via the firewire port.

I would highly recommend one.

[schwarzurreali]

Audigy performs great, sometimes is hard to install it and get it to work, but at the end works great. I've built several systems with audigy for friends/family, and everybody's happy with the sound. I would highly recommend an audigy, and if you're thinking about the price, grab an OEM at newegg or somewhere else. They're really cheap.

[Dissolved]

Originally posted by JBELL
i have audigy platinum w/ live drive - and love it!!!

:)
if you install the drivers right then the audigy is awesome.

[mdcomp]

Originally posted by Dissolved
:)
if you install the drivers right then the audigy is awesome.

Thats what I heard also. The drivers are all messed up. It seems clear that you should get the Santa Cruz.

[routehero]

Damn. I use the onboard C-MEDIA sound on my Soyo motherboard with Altec Lansing ATP-3 speakers and can't tell the difference between this and my old Live! card.

Don't think I'll be investing any more money in to Creative sound cards anymore. If really cared, I'd just output the sound to a DTS amp and upsample it there.

[Yodums]

Santa Cruz by far in terms of quality, price and support. Santa Cruz has SMP Drivers, Creative doesn't. Creative is very problematic with their products and takes awhile to sort out -- you don't hear any now because the Audigy is pretty old and the fixes for the drivers have progressed. Creative has some wacked drivers, 25MB and it still doesn't get full performance as other sound cards. The M-Audio Delta's are the best sound cards and used for professional work which retail at 149.99 - 200.00 @ guitarcenter and their drivers are 800K yet whoop every card there. Santa Cruz has SMP Support, their drivers are better and provide better support and performance. Also, Creative makes you wait in line for downloading drivers which really bugs me because you bought the card and you're waiting for service? If it's a free download or whatever hosted on File Planet sure that seems logical but this doesn't.

My vote goes to Santa Cruz. I think it's the card I'd go with when picking a video card because I'm not spending 200.00 for a sound card ;)