Hello, Yes when the topic is about Audigy 2 ZS then there has to be some kind of comment from my side .Well first of all there is a vast difference between an onboard and an Audigy 2 ZS , but between an SB live and audigy 2 .. hmmm well actually there is , but if you ask me .... hmmm ... well initially i was very excited for a 7.1 setup ,i had a creative inspire 5200 and SB LIVE ! combo and the sound was awoesome but not enough power and boom , and i new i wanted something which will give me something more , so i went ahead with the Audigy 2 ZS and t7700 both costed me about 17000 rupees and to tell you the truth ... there wasent much difference in the beginning.But in about 2 days when i finally got all the software setup correct ... the sound was something which i never heard before (I am serious ) Ill tell you guys ... it takes sometime to customise the software which comes with the sound card like the EAX console , CMSS2 console , enviromental morphing and the THX console , byt after when you'll get the setup right , ill tell you the sound will drench your senses .
Ok so far the + points ... well as far as my setup is concerned one thing which is bad is that you cant configure the sound card to a 96KHz frequency but rather keep it at 48 Khz otherwise rear side speakers sound gets distortion. Anyways i was trying with mp3 audio so i am not sure . ill have to try it on a good quality DVD. If you can spend more .. spend it on a 7.1 creative gigaworks , I would !