Originally posted by JB73
SB audigy are great...
dont get the one with the front drive bay plate. its extra frivolous stuff you wont need (based on you not having a new card lately you dont do home recording)
couldn't disagree more on this. I have the front plate for my audigy 1. headphone, Mic, and line-in, fire-wire plugs for the cam-corder (just to name a few) on the front, save a lot of hassle and leave the kids no reason to mess with the wires on the back of the box.
plus I have a line that runs to my home theater receiver, just plug it into the headphone jack, and with my audigy remote, I have access to all 450 albums on my hard-drive playing through the surround sound. you only need original Cd's for back-ups, and home made disc's for traveling.
all with no digging behind the desk. the drive-bay cover and remote are a couple of my favorite audigy features.
I'm not sure what the difference is between audigy 1&2, I'm very happy with the audigy one and haven't begun to use all of the features it has.