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I am looking to upgrade my desktop sound setup used mainly for music with a bit of games on the side. My current "shopping cart" includes the AudioEngine A5+ paired with either the Polk Audio PSW10 Subwoofer or the Dayton Audio 1200 12" Sub all hooked up to the AudioEngine D1 Dac. I read that...

but i would like a physical sound controller on my desk with a left and right speaker along with a subwoofer input. i cant get regular amps because i have a standalone subwoofer.

i know i need to plug it into a amp or dac and then plug the dac into the motherboard but are there any good dacs or amps that wont break the bank but are very good quality? it would need an over all volume control and a bass control. please recommend some. thanks

can i remotely wake it up from sleep and put it back to sleep? because i dont want laptop to run through the weekends that i am at home.

i have a desktop at home and a laptop i leave at the dorm when i visit home. is there a program i can install so i can from my home desktop, access my laptop? like without leaving it on all the time? i know there is team viewer but i have to accept from the other end. i dont want that.

over the course of one year, the plug on my audio technica athm50s have gotten very dirty. not the part that goes into the jack but the handle part. is it ok if i use a towel and hot water? or alcohol on it? will it kill the headphone?

it didnt work. this is what it looks like, the top 4 are ads http://puu.sh/iuchp/f5b9862dd3.jpg

i recently just got ads by antiadblocker on google. like the ads would appear above my searches. i have the regular adblock on. how do i get rid if the ads? i heard that there is a script or something. what is that? please help ty

going off to college soon and my parents want to buy me a laptop. is there any out there under 1k? would like a ssd in there, at least a 960 and as light as possible. i dont care about screen size. please help

is there such thing as an music equalizer wallpaper? like i am playing a song on spotify and something like this http://www.clker.com/cliparts/w/J/f/A/a/W/music-equalizer.svg is in the background but in realtime. is that possible? and if so please link

are you planning to listen to music with it? high bass etc? keep in mind gaming headsets are mainly centered around quality surround sound so in other words, they are not good for music. i have owned both the turtle beach x12 and the logitech g930. my turtle beach lasted for 3 years before the...

what does a sound card do? there are long articles about it but could you tell me the narrowed down version? better quality, surround sound, etc?

im pretty sure it is not the boost box. bc when i plug it into pc, bass is softer. bass box is meant to push that bass limit. i have the asrock lga1155 z75 with no sound card. im pretty sure that the headset is not meant to have extremely loud bass but the perfect mix. is there one where it can...

hi. i have a pair of audio technicas ath m50s. i bought them because of the praise for their sound quality and bass. with all that praise, i thought they would be able handle anything. i have my boost set on 50 hz with 24 db. that is the motherboard boost option. i then have a bass boost box...