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, ...

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 ...

Audio technology company Dolby Labs is releasing new software that aims to deliver surround sound through ordinary PC speakers. Dolby Virtual Speaker, to be launched Tuesday, promises to create the ...

Clear sound to hear enemy footsteps, clear communication for teammates. Game at your best with a quality headset! Curtis Berry / Unsplash If you're serious about gaming and want to hear every detail, ...

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.

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Months ago, I was under the mistaken impression that I needed Dolby Digital Live to get 5.1 sound out of PC games when running the PC through a receiver, and that was the sole reason I got a Xonar ...

Accessibility tools are becoming increasingly more common within the gaming PC space, but there's always more that can be done to elevate players with additional needs. While developers are ...

The commoditised PC is the most versatile tool many of us will own, and since it has been around for a very long time it is also something that can be found for free or very cheaply if the latest ...

<p>I'm a little late in linking this up, but it's worth a read if you haven't already checked it out. Tech Report has a large round-up of the current cream of the consumer-level PC soundcard crop, ...