AUDIGY 2 SOUNDS RUBBISH WITH VISTA DRIVER

I would like a explanation as to why MP3 files that once sounded punchy,dynamic,vibrent whilst using this very same sound card, now sound absolutly atrocious through your Windows Vista? Drivers. I have 2 mid priced Mackie Studio Referance Monitor's, the same monitors i have been playing compressed audio files through for the past 2 years, when not monitoring these speakers have tailored DB switiching on the rear, to colour up the sound. In short, these are extremly accurate referance monitors. Why is it that MP3's are listless,flat, lacking dynamics,punch and in very short terms, sound absolutly appalling!. You know one may begin to wonder as to why this is ? . Surely it could not have anything whatsoever with Creative wanting you to migrate to a X fi ?. No that could not be could it, of course MP3's sound terriable now, becuase your poor overworked team cannot produce DECENT AND CORRECTLY WORKING DRIVERS!. Watch your step !, or mark my words your company with have a Mass?tort Class Action Suit on it's hands. Im fed up with this pathetic rubbish, half-working drivers lacking 80% of features. There are laws against this type of manipulation you know !........
FIX YOUR DRIVERS !!

had the same problem myself. download the x-fi driver package and extract the files using winrar. now inside there is a subfolder called "drivers". run setup and it works fine on audigy2 cards. the sound is back to how it should be.
of course i wouldn't accuse creative of purposely making the audigy2 drivers sound terrible so we all upgrade.... Message Edited by marc2003 on 03-6-20072:43 PM

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