Hello I just purchase the nuforce uDAC and I would like to know which option will result in the best sound quality. What is the difference between Analog Stereo Output and Digital Stereo Duplex?

From HP:   Hear all the music. Experience the studio-quality music the artist intended you to with Beats™ Audio. HP audio engineers collaborated with Interscope records to deliver the best available audio experience through digital headphones or an external speaker system. HP ENVY’s...

I realize that there are a boatload of threads about DACs, but I have a few questions.    Is balanced really worth it for speakers?  From what I can tell a DAC that has balanced outputs is typically a fair amount more expensive than a non-balanced one.    I'm looking at this point just a...

I’ve visited the Computex Exhibition this year and interested in an Asus PC speaker system called Cine5, which provides very accurate surround effect and wide sound field (played with a Blue Man Group music), feeling much better than virtual surround like Dolby or DTS. However, it’s a pity that...

Alright so I've been looking for speakers (5.1) for my PC and PS3, I will be using those speakers for music gaming and some blu-ray movies. Right now i own x240 from logitech, I wouldnt say they are aweseom or bad, but they are good for its price. I decided to for logitech g51 but couldnt find...

Hi. I have basically no experience with audio quality for a few reasons. Let me just give you a run-down on what I have, what I need, what I was considering, and what uses I need this for:   First, I have the Creative I-Trigue 2200s, small laptop (but I also use them for my desktop) speakers...

If I were to set up a PC for muscic what would be the best way to do it. What music server would be best and how would I get it to sound close to my CD player.

I currently have a mac book pro -> apogee duet and am getting a emotiva xpa-2 amp and paradigm studio 20 bookshelf speakers. I was wondering I would gain much by getting a pre amp like the emotiva usp-1 or is my macbook pro -> apogee duet -> xpa-2 -> studio 20 good enough?   I am soo...

I have come to the realization that computer audio IS the future of audio.  When was your first realization that computer based audio was "where it's at"?   Was it the singular interface, a new sound card, or something else?

I would like to use Audacity to apply a uniform increase in the level of some WAV files. Is this possible? I would like  to increase the quiet and loud parts of  the recordings by the same factor to compensate for the fact that I have recorded some tracks at too low a level. I currently have to...

So, In my pursuits I have come across the nifty little project "Minimalist Audio Player". It is a small (very small) wasapi (or, now ASIO) audio player designed to avoid contact with the Windows API, as the creator believes that any interaction with the OS interferes with sound quality. The...

I bought my first set of decent headphones but I'm using it primarily on a computer. I like iTunes mainly because it works with my iPhone and I have all my playlists set-up. I tried Foobar which I liked for the sound (does excellent EQ as well), but I'm quite used to iTunes so would like to stay...

So I have the Asus Xonar Essence ST audio card. The beta drivers support bit-perfect audio, which as far as I know means that it automatically selects the sampling rate depending on what audio is being played? Okay, now while using kernel stream, wasapi (well this one is obvious) or asio, I...

Ever since I built my computer from scratch a while ago I have had issues with there being strange noises in the audio jack of my computer case, though the jack straight from the mobo does not seem to have this issue. If I drag things or move my mouse I get different sounds that are clearly...

My X-Fi has it's own sample rate setting which doesn't seem to change the sample rate and bit depth in the Windows Control Panel. Quicktime also has it's own settings and you chose which synthesizer to use. Should I just set everything to the highest my device supports?

Hey, my Macbook audio works fine when I hav e headphones in, but when I pull the plug out the audio does not come thru the speakers and the volume button shows a speaker with a slash thru it. Also there is a red light in the plug port. Weird.

I am using Mac and sometime I need to play my audio in my Bootcamp Win7 64bit. In the past I just use iTunes and ask it to read my Mac partition (yes in Bootcamp Windows can read the Mac formatted partition) and play without a problem.   However I got a M2tech HiFace and YES the SQ is...

So I recently discovered that my laptop has both a 3.5mm jack and a S/pdif jack (looks just like 3.5mm). The soundcard is a Realtek HD SRS (WOW).   Can somebody explain the significance of this and if I should plug in any of my headphones into it? Do specific headphones only work? I have a...

  Firstly I would just like to mention that this review is based purely on my personal option, and my amp roster has not been so large (d2-boa, maverick d1, and the ckkiii). So please take it with a grain of salt.   Source used: Denon DCD815 -> Audio-gd dac19mk3 (coax) -> Sheer Audio...

For each of the HP gain settings?   I can't find this info anywhere.   I'm looking at portable amps and I want to compare the power to my xonar while looking for one.

I usually use WASAPI on foobar when I listen to my music, but I have recently discovered an ASIO plugin for WMP. I have tried it out and can't seem to get it to work with music files. It works fine when I watch video, but not at all when I play a song. Does anyone use it, or know of a possible fix? 

Hi guys. I'm new here. I'd like to canvass opinion, esp. computer audiophiles on the above question as I step up my research on a suitable sound system for my desktop.   First, I've pretty much settled on a set of Sonodyne SMK100, after a couple of rounds auditioning various speakers such as...

Hi.   I'm currently running a setup consisting of the following:   FLAC > Squeezebox Duet > CI Audio VDA-2 > CI Audio VAC-1 > Naim Nait 5i > Monitor Audio GS10   I sold my headphone amp/DAC a little while back (Beresford TC-7520) to fund my main passion of loudspeaker based HiFi. I...

Looking for a good pair of speaker monitors, thinking of using a PreSonus AudioBox as my controller and ive chosen these two monitors Adam A7 monitors are very nice looking, especially with the ribbon tweeter, which is somewhat rare, and the Dynaudio BM5A monitors have a really good reputation...

I am using this little device to filter the power for my pc. I always think computer audio got a main problem and that's the power supply. Since traditional pc is not design for audio purpose, the noise from psu is too high compare with those high end audio devices. If no good power supply, the...