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 ...

Q: Why can’t sound cards be more like video cards? A: We assume that this question refers to the constant advances in graphics cards, where the release of new technology (like process shrinks and new ...

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 ...

I just inserted an Asus Xonar SE ($69) sound card. It works in a new Intel i5-12400 boxen. I spend enough time in the office to listen to sound and music through a more than decent Yamaha / Dynaudio ...

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 ...

Creative has engineered a new sound card designed to bridge the gap between performance and value in the form of the Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2. Offering users “pristine audio fidelity, advanced audio ...

The Digigram ALP280e, left, and ALP280e-MIC, right, sound cards. The ALP280e and ALP280e-MIC are French manufacturer Digigram’s latest additions to a sound card line that launched in 2022. The company ...

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Creative Labs wants people to fall in love with PC audio again. That’s a challenging task at a time when even gamers who drop big bucks on video-card upgrades think of sound cards as anachronisms.

French audio specialist and equipment manufacturer Digigram has announced the release of two new sound cards, ALP280e and ALP280e-MIC, as part of the ALP-X series. Available Q2 2025 from Digigram’s ...

Stereophile magazine's John Atkinson loved the Asus Xonar Essence ST/STX sound cards. They are, by far, the least expensive way of turning a PC into a genuine high-resolution audio source. Ex-movie ...

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 ...