Do You Need a Sound Card?

August 5, 2009

Do we need sound cards any more?

I fired up TweetDeck this morning and found a tweet from Jobney asking if he should bother with a sound card for an upcoming gaming PC he’s building, particularly since he’s just using 2.1 audio.

It turns out not to be such a simple question.
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By Loyd Case | Posted in All Topics, Audio, Hardware | Tagged Audio, sound blaster, sound cards, x-fi | Comments (22)

Guilty Confession

July 28, 2009

I’ve written extensively about home theater PCs, media center extenders, digital music adapters and other similar gear.

I almost never use any of these. I must wear the hubcap of shame.

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By Loyd Case | Posted in All Topics, Audio, Digital Media, Hardware | Tagged dma, HTPC, media, streaming | Comments (6)