If you're serious about making music forget about the audigy.
I did some testing with my 6fire and in fruity I can play complex songs with 64 samples/buffer which gives me about 1.5 ms latency without cracks (whereas my sblive had problems around 30 ms). I don't use vst's cause everything is hardware so can't tell you how much vst's you can run without cracks. You could also take a look at m-audio range

Audigy sound cards have latency issues still. Their sound quality is supposed to be a lot better now that Emu have taken over, but latency is still an issue. I'd go the terratec, but have a look at some other stuff on the market. Definitely look at the Delta cards.

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Where did you read that the Audigy has latency isues?! I've read some reviews where they said that the Audigy has well-written, low latency ASIO drivers. Only downside is they're fixed at 48khz, but if you only work with VST instruments and set samplerate at 48khz in Cubase I don't see any problem with this card, or am I wrong about that?!

When I say latency issues, I mean that they are not as low as other cards on the market like M-Audio. I read it from Tweakheadz (and a few other places).

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Yeah.

hey would the m-audio support up to a 6.1?

Theres a switch on the back of my 6.1 wub that converts 5.1 to 6.1 ... so, would that mean i could use an m-audio for a 6.1 system?

Don't know. The Audiophile supports 5.1, but you have to get an extra decoder box that doesn't come standard with the card. It then just plugs into the digital out line.

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