If you want to take full advantage of your PC’s audio potential, you should connect your rig to your A/V receiver and passive speakers—or a really good set of powered speakers.

Both products use Dolby Digital Live to encode any audio signal to 5.1-channel Dolby Digital in real time. The audio is then output through a S/PDIF interface to your A/V receiver.

Since I want to remove the soundcard to make room for stuff, I want to know how exactly I go about connecting my PC sound to my receiver through analog while still getting 5.1.

From the pokiest of bedrooms to the most expensive of cutting-edge recording studios, audio interfaces are pulling serious weight – and now you’ve gotten one to carry the load of your own music-making ...

So, how do you connect your audio interface to your computer? Here, we’ll take you through the process from start to finish – for both Windows PCs and Mac laptops.

Hello All,I am looking for some guidance here. I have a new computer built up but am having trouble figuring out the "best" way to connect the audio output of my Soundblaster X-fi xtreme gamer 5.1 ...

Spotify's new Connect service was launched this week and audio device makers used the IFA electronics show to launch the first wave of products that tie into it, including the Yamaha RX-A830 audio ...