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i have a £50 budget any sound card recommendations?

Chunky seakers, eh.....any recommendations.

!!!!! you use multimedia speakers with an audigy card! shame on you, get some heavy duty speakers and a nice big amp and plug it in the back I definatly think if you've got turntables you should get the Ex, very, very good, it's a shame most cards don't have phono connectors as standard
I hate 8mm, bloomin' converters here and there.

anyway, i didn't realise there was an OEM version, is it better than the CL 5.1?

hope you enjoy your card...

I would recomend Ebay (oh well I may as well say where from as SR probably won't mind as Ebay advertise loads with them anyway!)as I was on the sight a couple of days ago and they seem to be doing them for around about £55.00. I personaqlly bought mine on yahoo.co.uk auctions.

There are places that sell the OEM version of the Audigy Player for about £45, but saying where would kinda take the mick a bit.

The Ex is £165 with that very cool little external unit thingy. I got an Audigy with some nice surround sound speakers for Christmas and the quality is excellent, it has some really great features.

The only card I can think of like the one you talk about (an external box thing) is the Hercules Game Theatre XP, quite a good card, but most things are still down by the card in your PC, it'll always have to be done that way because of the architecture of PCs.

b****r, you already bought one...hhmm

ok, i'm stoopid, get a card with an external box, like a midi out thing, very, very useful, better sounds, + it doesn't get interfereance from the magnetics inside your pc, you have a small card in your pc then an external box, i know what I mean, get a magazine like Future music (£5) they sell loads of box thingies (can't remeber the name don't blame me) you can get them for around £50, as someone once said, you pay for what you get, what a wise person, anyway, better sounds + they're cheap, but they're more useful for making music other than getting good audio, hey, thinking about that, I kinda wasted my time writing this nonsense, i'd better get back to sleep, safer there, but i'll look into it......


failing that, get the CL 5.1 (the £45 one) very good card, nice features.

what did you want the card for anyway? sorry, i thought I read the earlier posts, but I can't remeber, g'dammit.

£50 Audidgy? where?! me want one, although they've dropped quite a bit, I might have to upgrade to the ex, don't know how much SR sell them, my local pc company are chuffed that they sell them for £180, that's just the card and the 3'5 unit, *drools* it's very useful, although i'd recommend getting something other than the audidgy, some give better latency, although I got mine down to 2mS which is nice ++ ah! what was I gonna say? gimme a min.

oh well i stretched the budget a bit and got an audigy. Thanks for the advice.

Audigy's look nice, mines ordered along with some nice new speaks :)

Either the SB Audigy or the Creative 5.1, depending on whether or not you'll use 5 point surround sound...I've been using it for a few weeks now and I love it..