I've read a few posts stating that the kx gives better audio quality on the audigy2 over the creative drivers..... is this true?

And if it is true, how much does it actually improve the quality? is it really worth changing etc.

Sorry I'm just kind of worried about changing drivers around, unless theres a good reason. I do like to have good quality sound, I'm using foobar + resampling etc etc for my media player.

Any help much appreciated! =)

This is far as i've managed using creative's drivers (see last post in thread):
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....topic=16493&hl=

The KX drivers will swap your front and rear outputs. Because the rear output has very slightly better quality than the front. There is more to it than that, but like you I'm not brave enough to change drivers and risk messing everything up.

I thought the audigy2 doesnt use the emu10k chip. I thought it was a major improvemnt over the audigy1 as far as it's DAC goes and you don't need to swap front/rear channels.

Apparently you do (see fourth paragraph): http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/rear.php?language=en

I doubt anyone could ABX the difference though.

Thanks alot for the reply, I think the only thing I hadn't already done was the 79% master volume, and cd audio muting. One funny story is the fact that I ran my audigy2 with line-in unmuted for months and just got used to that faint hissing noise, the day I muted it was a shock (a good one).

Anyhow, those kx drivers sound interesting. I guess switching the front & rear wouldn't really effect me since I use the audigy front panal with seperate volume control for my headphones (which I use for my listening).

Besides that would there be any other improvements with kx?