Well I applied my Best Buy gift cards to grab myself a new surround sound system for my PC. Got a Kenwood HTB-205. I know, not top of the line, but it was an upgrade from my existing 4.0 45w/ch ...

I have a couple of old ISA sound cards (Creative Awe64 and a near-generic "Mozart" card) which produce enough watts on the speaker output to produce a perfectly adequate sound through a set of old ...

The Sonic Audio SP sound card produces 2 W/channel and is compatible with Sound Blaster Pro and Windows audio standards. The board offers a seven-channel mixer and can compress and play back CD ...

To use multiple Audio Outputs at the same time on Windows 11/10, follow any one of these methods: Utilizing Stereo Mix and multiple Playback Devices Using Voicemeeter Try both of them to understand ...

The digital to analog converter, or DAC for short, which converts the computer's audio data into an analog signal for being sent to a sound system (such as speakers or an amplifier). A microphone ...

While the Z lacks some of the premium components used by its sister ZxR sound card, it still has reasonable selection of dedicated op-amp chips for various outputs. Following on from the SoundCore3D ...

The maker of the popular Raspberry Pi just announced a little soundcard, perfect for pairing with the ‘Berry Pi. The $33 card from Element 14 sits on the Pi’s P5 pins and features all the inputs and ...

At a time when many home computers included sophisticated hardware used to generate music and sound effects, IBM's first PC - designed primarily for small business use - only came equipped with a ...

I've been on the fence about buying a discrete sound card since building my first PC in 2002. The equation for buying most desktop parts is pretty straightforward: a graphics card can handle your ...

The Creative Sound Blaster X7 offers a ridiculous number of features for the money and sound quality is generally very good, but its appeal is limited. TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined ...

The speaker/headphone switch does exactly what it describes, as well as allowing you to tweak a few settings such as bass crossover frequencies for speaker configurations with separate subwoofers.