WiiM’s Sound Lite Smart Speaker Is An Affordable Alternative To The Flagship WiiM Sound Speaker

The WiiM Sound Lite is a pared-down version of the WiiM Sound wireless smart speaker. It has the same sound and appearance ...
PC World

Hands-on: Creative Labs’ Sound BlasterX AE-5 ups the audio for gamers

Creative Labs’ Sound BlasterX AE-5 has a message for PC gamers: The sound card isn’t dead. Unveiled on Monday morning, this is the company’s first discrete product in more than five years, made ...
Hackaday

MDFourier Project Seeks The Genesis Of SEGA 16-bit Sound

It always sounded a bit crunchy, but crunchy in a good way. SEGA’s 16-bit console, whether you call it the Genesis or Mega Drive, always had a unique sound thanks to it’s Yamaha YM2612 sound chip. The ...
Wired

What Is 32-Bit Float Audio, and Should You Record In It?

Unlike video tech, which seems to change every 10 years or so, audio has stayed largely the same for decades. If you bought a decent microphone and interface a decade ago or more, there’s a good ...
Ars Technica

Does 20 bit remastering to 16 bit burning actually sound better?

Is he really mastering--performing noise reduction, compression, equalization, etc.?<BR><BR>Did he record the music with his sound card? If not, then it does not matter. The processing is done in the ...
PC World

The Full Nerd episode 25: Core i9 review, build an Xbox One X PC, and Creative’s 32-bit sound card

In this week’s The Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray discuss Intel’s new Core i9-7900X ($1,000 on Newegg). This 10-core beast is the most powerful processor ...