Audio and desktop PCs have a long history of not playing well together. Most PCs get okay audio, but your average desktop doesn't have great sound-system tuning, which leaves you having to do the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: Why can’t sound cards be more like video cards? A: We assume that this question refers to the constant advances in graphics cards, where the release of new technology (like process shrinks and new ...

The Sound Blaster Re:Imagine (Horizon version) is currently available for pre-order on Kickstarter at a discounted price of $329 for the core hub with four modules. The planned retail price is $500.

Creative, the company best known for its Sound Blaster line of sound cards that boosted the audio capabilities of ’90s-era ...

Soundcards used to be giant long 8-bit ISA things that would take up a huge amount of real estate inside a desktop computer. These days, for most of us, they’re baked into the motherboard and we ...

I have a pair of speakers with S/PDIF and analogue input. The sound have been working fine from the S/PDIF out of the motherboard. I have set the line-in to listen mode so the S/PDIF stay on. The PC ...