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The market is rife with hardware video transcoders and software that can take advantage of them. However, making sense of that jungle of disparate offerings...

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For just $40, the Xonar U3 squeezes headphone and microphone jacks, an S/PDIF output, EAX emulation, speaker virtualization, and Dolby Digital Live support into...

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Much like Corsair, Antec has delved into the audio world with its first set of PC speakers. How did it fare?

Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia

Corsair has supplemented its line of audio products with a premium 2.1 speaker set. Is it worth the $250 asking price?

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Psyko Audio Labs has updated its surround-sound gaming headset with a new Carbon model that offers a number of upgrades and a lower asking price....

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WD's TV Live Hub media player has a terabyte of network-attached storage and works with just about any media file under the sun. We...

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Do you really need a discrete sound card? Simple question, and we've taken a look at Asus' new Xonar Xense and DG sound cards to...

Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Multimedia

Corsair has ventured into uncharted waters with its HS1 gaming headset. Is the HS1 worth the $100 asking price, and does it handle music...

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Psyko's 5.1 surround-sound headphones promise to envelope gamers in a perfect room filled with accurate positional audio. But can fancy waveguides really trump a proper...

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SanDisk's Sansa Clip has been the best mini MP3 player for a couple of years. Now there's a new model: the Clip+. We spend...

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Few things bore me more than staring at the bottom of a pool while swimming laps. Finis' SwiMP3 player promises to inject music into those...

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Asus and Auzentech recently released the Xonar Essence STX and X-Fi Forte sound cards designed specifically for use with headphones. We've taken them for...

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Could Western Digital's new digital media player be the ideal companion for the company's external hard drives? And does it belong in your entertainment...

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Asus burst onto the sound card scene with the Xonar D2X, delivering a card with solid performance and better sound quality than Creative's best. Now...

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Windows Vista has largely changed the game for PC audio solutions, and two new sound cards are set to challenge Creative's dominance of the market....

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LAUNCHED BACK IN 2001, Apple's iPod has arguably become the most iconic electronic device...

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WHEN ABIT WAS ACQUIRED last year, the new owners pruned the company's product line...

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