Upgrade to Audigy 4 Need

I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro and I love it. The Sound Quality is really good and clear. I went on the sound blaster page and been reading about the new Audigy 4. Do you think if I upgrade I'll notice a really big difference or is the current sound card I got is good enfough. And this new Creative X-fi, you think i'll need to upgrade to that?I play video games and sound makes a difference but I really don't want to spend $300 on a new sound card if i'm not really going to notice a big difference.

The Audigy4 simply has some better quality DACs and newer Creative software than the Audigy 2ZS. The processor is exactly the same. Unless you feel that the DAC quality of your Audigy 2ZS is low, don't upgrade.
Besides the X-Fi is supposed to be the real succesor to the Audigy line with a completely new processor, that overcomes the limitation of the previous EMU0Kx architectures. Plus it is quite more powerful. So if you feel the need to upgrade, go for the X-Fi, not for the Audigy 4.
But personally I'll stick with my Audigy 2ZS for the time being.

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