The circuit is aimed to build a computer sound card with input line in order to use a two mono stereo microphone. TLC272 – a precision dual operational amplifier with low offset voltage drift, low ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged ...

Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...

I've got a win7 x64 system that I need a sound card for. Who else is making PC sound cards other then Sound Blaster brands? I've have poor results from 3 of SBs line up, I figure driver issues mainly.

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 ...

Like the title says, I'm planning to build a $900 (excl. keyboard, mouse, monitor, operating system) gaming-oriented PC. I know the Ars Budget Box guide just sticks with integrated sound, but I have a ...

Digigram has announced the HR (High Resolution) series of PCX sound cards for broadcasters. The new PCX882HR and PCX881HR multichannel sound cards include hardware sample rate converters on all inputs ...

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 ...

Computer speakers provide audio functionality for your computer, allowing you to listen to application and media sounds or to provide sound for an audience during presentations. Most computers have a ...

Soundcards used to be giant long 8-bit ISA things that would take up a huge amount of real estate inside a desktop computer. These days, for most of us, they’re baked into the motherboard and we ...