For years, onboard audio has improved to the point where many enthusiasts questioned whether dedicated sound cards still had ...

Sound cards from CX4232 (Turtle Beach Tahiti) through the Ensoniq/Creative PCI series, the Vortex series and even the Santa Cruz all suffer from the buzzing. In fact, every single sound card I have ...

This is from an earlier post in the A/V forum, maybe you guys can help out?<BR><BR>I'm on my second laptop with an ESS audio chip. (yuk!) My latest is a Dell 8100 w/ 32MB Geforce2Go. Obviously, I'd ...

Motherboard audio is good enough for most people. When it is not, the obvious upgrade is usually an external DAC or headphone amplifier: Easy to connect, easy to reach and easy to carry over to the ...

At MMORPG, we first discovered Fiio with its line of affordable, pocketable headphone amplifiers. It's only fitting then, that we find ourselves in this edition of Golden Ears coming full circle and ...

Creative Labs’ Sound BlasterX AE-5 has a message for PC gamers: The sound card isn’t dead. Unveiled on Monday morning, this is the company’s first discrete product in more than five years, made ...