When we released the first beta of ALchemy for X-Fi, we hoped customers would appreciate our efforts. Within only a few months, the response from users and the press has been overwhelmingly positive. Many of our customers have asked if we could adapt ALchemy to Audigy series sound cards.

The X-Fi and Audigy series sound cards are built on different hardware architectures, and therefore require separate development efforts. However, based on the requests to date, we are pleased to announce that we have begun development of an implementation of ALchemy for Audigy series sound cards, and hope to offer this product as a low-cost upgrade to interested Audigy owners later this year.

It would be totally useless to comment on this story, and you should already know my thoughts about this. Anyway, I remember when some people accused us for bias toward Creative Labs; Now we can point at all these people - and laugh. By the way, Creative Labs is accepting Visa, MasterCard and Paypal, so prepare your credit cards and wallets.

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