Was sitting here watching a film, and thought to myself just how spectacular it sounded. Then it dawned on me - the audio was 48khz, so no upsampling was taking place. Figured I'd do some testing at the end of the film. Ripped my current benchmark CD(Acoustic Alchemy - Arcan'um) to FLAC. Then...

Originally posted this in the wrong section. Sorry . Okay. With the hot weather being so uncomfortable I might have a look at tapping into the i2s input on the SAA7350 in my old CD player, and see if I can cobble together an external DAC from my PC via USB - I've got a PCM2706 or 7 sitting...

I've got a SmartPhone with 128mb memory card, and use it for listening to music sometimes when out and about. Couldn't sleep last night, so spent a while messing around with Ogg, trying to see how low I can go whilst still having decent quality audio. I found the results really rather...

Just bought one of these - crikey! An absolute revelation over the SoundBlaster PCI64 I've had in my machine for the last 6 years! I'd have rather bought the Chaintech AV-710, but I can't find one in the UK for love nor money. Saw this on offer in PC World - £20.08 if you order on the web and...

Hi all, I love having music on my PC. It's a fantastic luxury, but it can be a bit cumbersome and I lose out on a fair bit of usable storage. What I'm thinking of doing is converting a second-hand Xbox into a cheap audio server. I'm pretty good with PC hardware, so I'd have little problem...