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 ...

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A sound card of any price is built around a handful of key components: an audio processor, a digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) and analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) to translate the data signal ...

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 ...

Sound cards have been a staple in PC gaming for years - whether they’re internal, external, or built into the USB connection of your fancy gaming headset. Today, we’re looking at a portable sound card ...

I have always use sound cards instead of onboard audio. However I keep hearing that onboard is good enough for most people. Is this true? Onboard audio is indeed good enough for most people. Most of ...

Sound hardware has been built into PC motherboards for so long now it’s difficult to remember the days when a sound card was an expensive add-on peripheral. By the mid to late 1990s they were ...

If you need to record or digitse sound professionally, you need a high quality analogue to digital converter. We test the PrismSound Titan - a high-performing, high-end USB audio interface A/D ...

Even in a field you think you know intimately, the Internet still has the power to surprise. Sound cards of the 1990s might not be everyone’s specialist subject, but since the CD-ROM ...