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For a gamer, if you've got the money to spend on the FX6021 system, it will be a step up from the FX4021. That said, the FX4021 is a nice sounding system at moderate volumes. The FX6021 is just a much louder system; that is, it's more 'crankable'. If I had to use my incredible powers of ESP, I...

If the Zune was a PlaysForSure player, I'd buy one. As it stands today, no deal.

When I was at Greg's (DarkSynergy's) house once, I had the pleasure of hearing a Steelsound 5H headset, and I can definitely sign off on the sound quality of the nicer Steelsound units. They had a nice, neutral, 'hi-fi' sound that was free of the cupped coloration I heard when listening to the...

I'm a bigger and bigger fan of the Xonar sound card every time I get a chance to use the analog outputs. Typically, I run an optical Toslink cable under the carpet, across the room to my HT receiver. However, the extremely high quality output of the Xonar's analog section (burr-brown DACs and...

Wow, this is an incredible case mod that in my opinion really gets back to the original spirit of case modding. Back before every joe and jane could buy a pre-modded case with LEDs and bling, y0. The vertical milling part in particular is very cool. I don't really like working with plexi, though...

If you put coke on Mentos, the Mentos don't explode - the soda just fizzes. You can't build any pressure that way, and you need pressure to make the fountain effect.

Hi, man. The reason that features like 'Loud' (loudness) and 'SFX' aren't typically integrated in a speaker's processing (always active), and are only offered as options, is that the effects they create can sound unnatural with some recordings, and it may be desirable at times to hear the...

The present word from Razer on the Mako is that they'll be debuting as part of a multi-city touring event during the month of September. We expect we'll have a set by then, and if not, then we'll get one ultra-soon.

Really, if you want the best in gaming performance (which pretty much means you need onboard DSP acceleration) AND an upgrade in sound quality from your current Audigy4 card, then it's the X-Fi for you. Or else the Auzentech Prelude, which is also X-Fi based, and is pretty much the ultimate PC...

I doubt there will be much change from the D2 to the D2X, since current sound cards don't send enough data along the PCI bus to tax its capabilities. The real value of having a PCIe card is to have something to use your PCIe 1x slots for. My motherboard, the ABIT KN9 Ultra, has four PCIe 1x...

It's just old beer to me...

Congrats on being the first, and a well-written review.

You get a similar treatment whenever you leave a Fry's Electronics store. There's a person at a podium, waiting to check the contents of your bag against what your receipt shows. I've never bothered trying to resist, since I'm not a shoplifter and don't really mind, but it's still a bit like...

I'm a Diamondback owner (the original, Acid Green), and I'm definitely a fan, though the mouse's design is fairly simple, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh buttons (which are side-mounted) are not very ergonomic. If you need a great three-button clicker, and only use the extra buttons...

I'm looking into an MP3 player that can handle PlaysForSure WMAs -- this may be just the ticket for me.

Believe it or not, there was once a day when the blast of noisy fans was the mark of a through-the-roof overclocked rig, and people actually thought this way about PC hardware. It's not so true these days, however, as enthusiasts are beginning to understand the importance of noise as an...

The real thing I've been noticing is that there haven't been any 'new' 5.1-channel products put out, at all. When it comes to the high end stuff, the development is still on the 2.1-channel front. Klipsch had their problems (mainly due to the long-term effects of vibration, as I understood it)...

One thing has become apparent to me within about the last year or so: multichannel audio on the PC has bit the dust...hard. With fastidious big-name loudspeaker manufacturers like Klipsch heading for the door, and major up-and-comers like Razer choosing to go the 2.1 route with their high-end...

Abuse it and lose it. That's why most of the truly fun or interesting activities in the United States are illegal.

I'll have to see if I can get these in and give them a good going-over. If they really are a high-quality product, the world deserves to know.