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I'll see your pie chart...and raise you a Venn diagram.

My interest in audio began as a teenager in high school. I'd often enjoyed going into stores like Best Buy and Circuit City, and checking out the fascinating variety of speakers and audio systems on display. I naturally gravitated toward the speakers, because they were the most 'mechanical' of...

Some time ago, I had an Etasis ET750 power supply (essentially like a PCP&C Silencer 750, feature for feature) in my testing rig, gearing up to test an ASUS M2A-VM motherboard (based on the AMD 690G chipset). However, after about the seventh or eighth time I powered up the system, there was a...

For the earliest in personal computer building, look no further than the MITS Altair 8800. It came as a kit, which you assembled. With a soldering iron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

They're both good, but neither one may be right for you. The question is, what exactly is the question? What are your budget requirements? What are your preferences for music style and listening volume? Do the speakers in question need to be room-filling, or will you do most of your listening...

Wow, um..."Unregistered". I really hope we can see some photos of your system, and your implementation of the hardware, since it's definitely outside the norm, and I'd say it even stretches the 'lunatic fringe' category somewhat.

CB, what you're suggesting won't work unless you have some device between the ASUS Xonar D2X's S/PDIF output and the preamp/processor unit performing the function of Digital-to-Analog Conversion (DAC), which reassembles the digital audio signal (a sequence of on-off data representing digital 1s...

At this point, the 'best' 2.1 system for PCs at the moment would be the Audioengine A5 speakers, mated with the Audioengine A8 powered subwoofer. I think the combination of the two systems would blow away any other speaker system currently marketed for PCs. Though I have heard rumors that...

Right, just about every tube-axial PC fan you can buy these days is configured to have its discharge on the label side of the fan. And since the fan motors are electronically commutated (the process by which motor windings are energized and de-energized to produce movement of the armature is...

I dun found it. http://forums.techgage.com/showpost.php?p=27413&postcount=2 If these rumors pan out, I'll enjoy very much asking Rob if he'd like any salt for his hat, as he seems quite assured that Intel's dominance in the CPU market won't be threatened for a very long time. There have been...

Here's a thread I found at TechPowerUp supposedly offering 'proof' that the 45nm 'Deneb' Phenoms will clock to 4 GHz (though admittedly, that is a pretty insane air-cooling setup.) If it's true, I'll be keeping my wallet on standby. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=73521

tc93 and others, Let me state that I didn't enable CMSS-3D when testing the Creative sound card, because it is by no means a 'requirement' to experience EAX effects, and would only add an additional layer of DSP processing to confuse the issue of which effects were added by EAX, and which were...

Here's what Microsoft needs to build into Windows 7: They need to build in a secure hardware layer for the user's keyboard and mouse. That way, when a user does something that would ordinarily cause UAC to instantly clamp down, the operating system could have some way of being reasonably sure...

The idea of AMD (the chip engineering business unit) going completely 'fabless' makes quite a bit of sense now, since AMD would have access to a great deal of foundry capacity to manufacture its chips, both at TSMC and at The Foundry Company, as well as at their old friends Chartered...

Honestly, sometimes I feel I belong to the other camp -- the side that manages to avoid upgradeitis just a little bit too long. In the main PC I use for typical tasks and light gaming, I'm still using an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, though I did splurge some time ago to purchase a Radeon HD3870 for...

No, that's Bill Kelley. But...it could be Rob, if Rob grew all his hair on his face instead of his head.

I'd say that the Z Cinema, with its fabric "dome" tweeters, has a more 'extended' high end sound than a typical PC speaker using full-range cone drivers. Its treble and bass range are also adjustable, giving you some measure of control over tonal balance.

I think in your case, a nice set of headphones would be your best option. My favorite online store for headphones is by far HeadRoom (www.headphone.com) -- their educated staff takes the time to review most of the products they sell. If I were you, I'd grab the Sennheiser HD 201.

If you're hearing a periodic click from your FreeAgent, that's probably not a good sign. Go out and buy a stack of DVDs and start backing up your files from the hard drive, just to be safe.

To address Mike's comment, it did seem to me like these speakers were far too reserved both in their overall volume level and in the amount of bass or treble adjustment that was available. But then, I can't imagine constantly listening to these speakers at full volume -- for what they had, they...