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For laptops, MacBooks and desktop PCs, good audio can often seem like an afterthought. It’s hard to get quality sound from built-in speakers, which have to be crammed inside a hyper-thin chassis ...

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, ...

Ever since I moved out of the city and into a house with an actual office, I’ve had enough space to create something that I’ve always wanted: a workstation with a truly killer desktop audio system.

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 ...

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 ...

With an emphasis on cutting-edge graphics and some NVIDIA GPUs costing thousands of dollars, it's easy to forget how important sound is when assembling a gaming PC. Most motherboards have integrated ...

Sonos doesn’t make computer speakers. And despite how closely some of its speakers look the part (specifically the Era 100, as well as the older Play:1, One and One SL), that’s not how they were ...

When it’s time to upgrade your computer speakers, you don’t have to drop a few hundred dollars on a sound system. If you know where to look, the best computer speakers under $50 can still be a ...

The audio input and audio output ports on a Windows PC. On Windows desktop computers, the ports are generally color coded and often support a surround sound system. In contrast, a Mac does not have ...

Muting your computer can be a quick way to maintain focus or silence an unexpected noise. Using keyboard shortcuts, you can ...

Some of the simplest solutions to annoying hum in computer speakers involves just checking all the connections and making sure everything is plugged in tight. Audio cable transmits sound as ...