The Audician 32 plus is overrated. I bought it, used it for a while but boy, it's NOT as good as advertised. Yes it sounds great but it has a LOT of incompatibilities. It's really a Sound Blaster Pro, NOT a Sound Blaster 16 and a lot of games would have issues with it. Also, out of the box it sounds TERRIBLE - you need to edit the configuration file by hand to make it sound decent which seems rather odd to me.
Last Winter, I tested my new HP Vectra and used the Audician as main sound card. Out of 250 games tested, over 30 had sound issues with the card ranging from the game refusing to run at all, to no sound, to reversed stereo, to very low quality sound (16 bit not supported), to weird slow downs, etc. When I popped in my Sound Blaster 16 and retested the games, all the problems went away. Some of these games were really big: Cannon Fodder, Duke Nukem 3D, ... so it was impossible to ignore.
I'm not even sure where the Audician fits - as a SB Pro, it doesn't work great with later DOS games (which is where most compatibility issues could be found) but the card was released around that period so it's odd. On top of that, I found the DOS drivers to be buggy - they use no conventional memory (which is a plus) but it would often not correctly load my volume settings requiring me to enter the program and quit and then magically it would load them even though I changed nothing. Windows 3.1 drivers are extremely limited as well with a very ugly front-end.
So yeah, when it works, it has clean quality sound but isn't the point of having a go-to sound card one that can tackle as many things as possible? This one certainly is not it ...
Retro game fanatic.
IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870