appiah4 wrote on 2021-07-26, 06:33:

It's the last good Sound Blaster Creative ever made. That said there are SB Pro clones that are better than the SB Pro anyway so I would never pay the street prices for these. Despite being the only model lacking in my modest collection I won't get one unless I stumble on it for cheap somehow.

To tell you the truth (and I know it's blasphemous to say this on Vogons), when it comes to actual sound quality, I actually prefer some SB16/AWE32 cards, instead of the SB Pro 2.
For me, the most annoying thing regarding the SB16 cards is the single cycle DMA clicking. In my case, the MIDI bugs are a non-issue, because I don't care about MIDI at all, it doesn't have any nostalgic value for me.