Buying yourself a pair of the best budget studio monitors can offer a serious upgrade to your music-making efforts. There's a reason most professional engineers still mix on monitors, and that's ...

I just inserted an Asus Xonar SE ($69) sound card. It works in a new Intel i5-12400 boxen. I spend enough time in the office to listen to sound and music through a more than decent Yamaha / Dynaudio ...

Affordability is huge in 2021. People want performance and value right now and the new Polk Audio Monitor XT Series deliver that in spades. Nothing peaks our interest more than high-end brands pushing ...

Does it make sense to use an audio interface to input audio into your computer? For some users — it’s still a useful tool. Professional musicians are already familiar with the difference between an ...

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I've read a lot of stuff about this going both ways. Thought I'd ask here in case anybody can give me more insight. Basically, some people seem to say, "Unless you're a professional sound engineer, ...

If these were the early 2000s. We would have said that having a sound card is a flex. With good reason, too. You'd slap one into your PC, crank up a media player, and pretend you were mastering audio.