It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Your PC can produce pretty decent audio without your having to spend a dime on new hardware, so why the heck are we advocating doing just that? Because you’ll ...

The commoditised PC is the most versatile tool many of us will own, and since it has been around for a very long time it is also something that can be found for free or very cheaply if the latest ...

Stereophile magazine's John Atkinson loved the Asus Xonar Essence ST/STX sound cards. They are, by far, the least expensive way of turning a PC into a genuine high-resolution audio source. Ex-movie ...

Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...

My poor memory is failing me here...I know I've got my 360 hooked up to the receiver using component, and there are 5 component cables; are 2 of them video and 3 of them audio, or vice versa? Click to ...

Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged ...

Element 14, the company that manufactures Raspberry Pi, just upped the audio chops of the $25 single-board computer. The company recently released a $33 audio card that promises PC-like audio capture ...

Does it make sense to use an audio interface to input audio into your computer? For some users — it’s still a useful tool. Professional musicians are already familiar with the difference between an ...

Computer speakers provide audio functionality for your computer, allowing you to listen to application and media sounds or to provide sound for an audience during presentations. Most computers have a ...

Knowing how to record computer audio will always be greatly helpful, especially when you want to record podcasts, interviews, streaming music, audio calls, and more. This post will discuss some ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This ...

I've got a win7 x64 system that I need a sound card for. Who else is making PC sound cards other then Sound Blaster brands? I've have poor results from 3 of SBs line up, I figure driver issues mainly.