Based on your question of the distortion, you want to make music with it...
Go for the M-audio Audiophile 24/96, highly spec'd and even cheaper than the
audigy.
Check on-line reviews for it or www.m-audio.com



"Charles Bronson aka The Mechanic" schreef in bericht
hlink.net...
below ........ email I sent to Creative Labs while pondering a purchase of
their $200 audio computer interface sound card setup .......
these idiots can not even tell me the friggin distortion specs for their
own
audio equipment.

Can anyone suggest a high quality sound card from a non China manufacturer
?


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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:45:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Creative Americas Technical Support"

To: "BT"
Subject: Product information (Inside Sales) (KMM1908862I30L0KM)

Dear Bruce,

We regret to inform you that we do not have the spec for Total IM and HM
distortion at rated output from
20-20kHz.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

For faster service please reply with previous correspondences when
replying to this email.

Best Regards

Ang Chai Soon
Technical Support
Creative Labs Americas