The Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 is exactly as the product says it is. All the functions that it promised perform well. It’s also ideal for music and movie playback as it delivers the sound in high quality. Gaming support is also good for casual gamers but for more hardcore gamers, better check for a [...]
External sound cards have been introduced into the market mainly as laptop accessories. They are most useful for laptop users who want to improve their laptop’s sound quality but temperature conditions do not allow for a high end internal sound card which can easily overheat. With that in mind, one of the latest external sound [...]
External sound cards bring wonderful audio quality to your computer like you have never experienced before. It is a useful piece of equipment especially for those who love to watch movies or play music in their laptop computers. However, with the current market of external sound cards, there are a lot to choose from, which [...]
The external sound card market mainly consists of laptop owners. Its main function is to provide better sound quality for laptop users who cannot use high end internal sound cards since these are prone to overheating. With that in mind, for those looking for a good external sound card, you may want to take a [...]
Today, most computer motherboards already have a built in audio support so that your computer can process the audio information from the various programs that you run and convert that information into sound through your computer speakers. However, built in sound cards are usually simple devices and have no other features that can improve the [...]
An external sound card is a hardware device which connects to your laptop or desktop computer through a USB port. It is a mobile device so that you can simply use it to plug and play with different computers. So, what does it do for your computer? It enhances the way your computer produces sound. [...]
HRTF means Head Related Transfer Functions. It is a set of audio features that have different locations. With HRTF, sounds created are in 3 dimension.
Note polyphony refers to the number of notes that the external sound card can process simultaneously. In other words, a 32 note polyphony external sound card can produce 32 notes at the same time. A higher number of note can produce a better sound compared to a lower number polyphony.
Wave table synthesizer is a component of the external sound card which contains several short digital recordings of various instruments. This allows your computer to produce richer sounds and better quality audio.
MIDI is responsible for connecting the musical instruments to your computer and at the same time, it provides the computer with the standard format for playing back digital sound. With MIDI, your computer will be able to enable or disable 16 different sound channels whenever needed to produce the proper sound.
