Asus' Xonar DX sound card
Asus burst onto the sound card scene with the Xonar D2X, delivering a card with solid performance and better sound quality than Creative's best. Now Asus is back with an affordable DX derivative. Read on to see how the new Xonar fares. Read more...
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Last post by sluggo at 12:20 AM on April 12, 2008
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Remixed audio cards in Windows Vista
Windows Vista has largely changed the game for PC audio solutions, and two new sound cards are set to challenge Creative's dominance of the market. Read on as we put Asus' Xonar D2X and Auzentech's X-Fi Prelude through their paces. Read more...
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Last post by jlreate at 9:45 AM on April 9, 2008 -
Apple's iPod and Microsoft's Zune face off
LAUNCHED BACK IN 2001, Apple's iPod has arguably become the most iconic electronic device of the 21st century. With sales of over 100 million units, the iPod has dominated the market for portable audio—and now video—players. What's more, it's... Read more...
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Last post by Tommyxx516 at 1:35 PM on November 25, 2007 -
Abit's iDome DS500 and SW510 speakers
WHEN ABIT WAS ACQUIRED last year, the new owners pruned the company's product line to focus its attention squarely on motherboards. Graphics cards and other ancillary products were cut, but one plucky side project managed to survive. That side... Read more...
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Last post by FireGryphon at 11:10 PM on February 25, 2007 -
Oxygen HD sound cards from Auzentech and Sondigo
CREATIVE HAS ALL BUT OWNED the market for PC audio cards since it introduced the original Sound Blaster way back when. That dominance has only grown over the years, in part because Creative has made some very good sound... Read more...
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Last post by Alanzilla at 12:57 PM on February 9, 2007 -
Exploring EAX with onboard audio
ANALOG DEVICES RECENTLY published a document challenging reviewers not only to benchmark the CPU utilization of integrated audio solutions, but also to explore how well those implementations handle EAX positional 3D audio. According to the document, most... Read more...
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Last post by format_C at 4:43 AM on November 20, 2006 -
Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty audio card
IT'S RARE THAT a new product completely outclasses its competition, but that's what happened when Creative introduced its X-Fi audio processor—not that there are many real competitors left in the PC audio market, mind you. Still, it's hard... Read more...
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Last post by Krogoth at 12:56 PM on March 20, 2006 -
Creative's Sound Blaster X-Fi audio processor
FOR A WHILE THERE, the PC audio market was pretty boring. Creative had bought out Aureal and Sensaura, and seemed content to issue only incremental improvements to its Audigy line of sound cards. VIA challenged Creative's dominance of... Read more...
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Last post by LTJ at 4:06 PM on October 16, 2005 -
Counter-Strike: Source audio performance explored
OVER THE PAST WEEK we've seen a deluge of Counter-Strike: Source performance articles. For the most part, coverage has focused on graphics cards, but there's more to the Counter-Strike: Source performance story than pixel-pushing power. In addition... Read more...
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Last post by _Shorty at 2:32 PM on August 29, 2004 -
Philips' Ultimate Edge sound card
IN WHAT SEEMS LIKE no time at all, VIA's Envy24 audio controller has successfully infiltrated every level of the consumer PC sound card market. The Envy24 isn't a single audio controller per se but an entire family of... Read more...
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Last post by --k at 10:52 AM on July 13, 2004 -
Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1 sound card
Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1 is one of the first discrete sound cards to use VIA's mid-range Envy24HT-S audio controller, and it promises to deliver great sound for audio enthusiasts on a budget. I've put an Entertainer through a... Read more...
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Last post by master at 4:38 PM on February 12, 2004 -
An interview with VIA's Keith Kowal
VIA'S ENVY24 family of high-fidelity audio processors is easily the most exciting challenge to Creative's dominance of the PC audio market since Aureal took a stab at the SoundBlaster giant. Recently, I had the chance to check out... Read more...
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Last post by JimmyBoy at 7:47 AM on April 10, 2003 -
M-Audio's Revolution 7.1 sound card
LAST YEAR, Terratec's high-end DMX 6fire 24/96 opened my eyes to how good PC audio can be. In our audio card comparison, the DMX 6fire 24/96's audio quality blew away every other card we tested. Not only... Read more...
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Last post by Anonymous Gerbil at 8:52 AM on July 29, 2003 -
Exploring the AIW 9700 Pro's VIVO/PVR capabilities
FOR YEARS, ATI's All-in-Wonder "do anything" graphics cards have been the Swiss Army knives of the graphics card world. If they existed during the mid-80s, MacGuyver would have surely been running one in his PC. Probably with a... Read more...
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