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Does Audigy's 24bit/96Khz require a pair of 24bit/96Khz speakers to hear 24bit/96Khz sound?

That refers to the digital sampling rate, internal to the DSP and DAC. what goes to your speakers is still 20Hz-20KHz analog audio.

So the short answer is no. Speakers don't care about the DSPs sampling rate, everything that goes to the speaker is still analog.

i have a set of DTT 3500 which is gonna go in to the SB digital out. is my speaker digital?

The speaker, no. The amplifier probably has a digital input. Who makes the DTT 3500?

edit: The Audigy's digital out is SPDIF, so it's probably the standard 16-bit, 44.1 kHz sampling.

Creative/Cambridge makes the DTT 3500.

heres more info http://csw.creative.com/products/dtt3500/

so by buying the audigy..i will not benifit 24bit/96khz feature?

Why don't you ask Creative?

right...

you definetly dont need new speakers, try reading some of the reviews of the audigy to get a better understanding of what the numbers mean. 3dsoundsurge should have 1, amongst others.

Thanks for all u guy's help i did some research on my speakers and the decoder has a 24bit DAC but im still confuse weather i will benefit from audidy's 24bit/96khz sample rate. i'll look in to some more reviews.

thanks again

The 24/96 is pure digital numbers. Your speakers work with analog signals, which aren't mesured in bits or sampling rates. So your speaker choice will not be directly related to sampling rate and frequency.

BUT...The 24 bits/sample gives you a huge frequency range to work with. This means the frequencies output by the sound card may go past 20 kHz. Most speakers cannot even reach 20 kHz, much less higher.

BUT... most people cannot hear past 18 kHz anyway. So the extra frequency range is really overkill. The 96 kHz samplig rate is what is really nice. If your source has the data to feed it (which I doubt), the output should sound smoother, and less 'digital'.

BUT... you will need a nice pair fo speakers to notice the difference. Almost any pair of 'computer speakers' will not have the range or accuracy to justify upgrading from old 16 bit/48 kHz sound of older generation sound cards.

THUS... if you want to get the most out of a sound card that can handle higher sampling rates and frequencies, you will probably need a nice set of speakers. The speakers will most likely run you far more than the cost of the card. The klipsch promedias might be good enough for you to hear the difference, but that is debatable.