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 ...

Dedicated sound cards may be far less prevalent than they were in the early days of PC gaming but they haven’t disappeared completely. If you grew up building your own gaming computers, Creative and ...

Audinate’s Dante PCIe-R, Focusrite’s RedNet PCIe Card, and Yamaha’s Dante Accelerator PCIe-R Soundcard Now Work Seamlessly With Sonnet’s Echo Express, xMac mini Server, and xMac Pro Server Solutions ...

Games are more than just an interactive visual experience. The time and effort that developers spend in creating and incorporating immersive audio and soundtracks are not experienced to their fullest ...

I have a very nice (for my needs, anyway) PCIe sound blaster (a real one) in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box. Works great. But I have to take it out as I need the space it is using, for something else.

This review at EliteBastards is actually a couple of weeks old. In it, the D2X (PCI-E) sound card gives dramatically better results than the D2 (PCI) version. The reviewer interprets this as a ...

For some people, replacing a PC’s motherboard audio with a sound card is already a high-end move. Replacing it with a sound card that costs $350? That’s insane. But that’s just what Creative is ...

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 ...