audio quality

What would be the advantages/disadvantages of onboard sound vs a sound card? With a sound add on card are there headers for front panels connections.? Would I see/hear a big difference in the sound?

Hello everyone. I am out of ideas for this and am about to trash windows 7 all together and go back to windows XP. My problem is one that I can no longer ignore. The new windows 7 audio API is great when you are the average PC user who watches movies and listens to music. But for those of...

Hello there, I hope you can help?! Ever since I bought my P6320UK HP Pavilion Desktop i have been having intermittent issues playing sound. The audio stops and starts and is distorted. I have gone down every available avenue, been in touch with HP, PC World and had the computer away for...

Hey. I figured it'd be cool to show some pics of my rig (specs in profile) and home music studio. I'll tell ya about each picture and what it is. I'll start with my actual rig. As you can see it is not very neat but that doesn't bother me much. I don't have a cable long enough for the Caviar...

In my last post I showed off the WavePad Sound Editor application. It allowed for the editing of anything from music to your very own voice. Let’s say that you want to create a song, but you can’t get the timing quite right. Maybe you want to add additional sounds and/or voices. What do you do...

If any of my CDs have the smallest scratch on them, Media Player makes them sound incredibly fuzzy and distorted. Is there anything I can do to solve this? I'm considering downloading an earlier version of WMP but I'm on Windows 7 and I doubt it'll let me.

I have a new HP G60-535dx notebook. It has a built-in webcam. I was very eager to try this on Skype. did their test call, can hear the woman perfectly, but my voice breaks up and is very distorted.checked my driver updates and all are current. I figured i should test my recorder and there is a...

Hello members, My first comment is that Windows7 Rocks!!! I am running the Win7RC version 7100. I downloaded iTunes and installed some music as well as downloading some tunes from the store. The problem that i am experiencing is that the playback is terrible. Lots of ticks, scratches, skips and...

I am with a problem, still have 200-300 cds to rip and encode into mp3/mpc. Untill Windows 7, I had been using Exact Audio Copy with Lame (--alt preset -standard), but EAC does not work in Windows 7. Windows 7 freezes in a couple of seconds after a rip has been initiated - have tried with the...

I figure here is a good place to put this, if not, please move it to a more appropriate forum. The only problem I've had with Vista and now with 7 is the sound. I'm sure 98% of others are able to look past it and get on with what seems like a great OS. I have an on-board sound card and 5.1...