I finally bought Benchmark DAC1 USB as my external usb sound card. However, removing the cover, I noticed two big capacitors are a little bumped on their caps. Is it the normal? Or should I RMA it? Really thanks.

I now want to upgrade its sound quality with a USB sound card for my laptop (Toshiba M200, the model two more years ago). However, my concern is that whether this kind of rig(USB sound card) did help a lot in better sound quality for a laptop? Or are there any other ways I can do to improve the...

I now focus on an audio card under $100 USD, which is great for gaming (music and movies sometimes). I would like to limit my choice within ASUS Xonar DX and Creative X-Fi Titanium. Anyone here want to share experience with one of the both? Or any suggestion?

Hi, have any of you heard of "Cine5" ? I've been keeping tracking this product since CES in this January, and it is really fancy and with accurate 5 channel surround sound in all-in-one design. Recently I've found a news on CrunchGear showing that Cine5 will soon be lunched in June. Did any...

Really fed up with Creative Xtreme Audio PCI-E!!! When turnning up sampling rate to 96khz and depth to 24bit, sounds become terrible noise, and music playing extremely slows down. I try everything I can and make sure this is not the problem of my PC. I bought this due to the Creative's...