New 5.1 sound card out for Mac and PC

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hey is there anybody who can sugest me a
good 5.1 sound card

hey is there anybody who can sugest me a
good 5.1 sound card 09/23/2004 11:09 AM
TechTree Sep 23 2004 1:54PM GMT

M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PC Surround Sound
Card

M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PC Surround Sound
Card 03/20/2003 09:35 AM

Griffin PowerWave USB Sound Card and Amp
Review

Griffin PowerWave USB Sound Card and Amp
Review 05/14/2004 03:08 PM
Krakow reviews the Griffin PowerWave, a USB sound card with a built-in Class-T amplifier, and just absolutely flips for it. The external sound card bit isn't that impressive--it's got a fair number of connections, but that isn't anything new--but when he hooked the PowerWave up to his stereo, he got...

M-Audio Ships 5.1-Speaker Sound Card

M-Audio Ships 5.1-Speaker Sound Card 08/04/2004 08:12 PM
M-Audio USA unveiled its latest sound card on Wednesday, challenging the Creative Technology's Audigy line.

Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1
sound card @ TechReport

Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1
sound card @ TechReport 02/10/2004 09:16 AM

HiTeC PCI HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1
Sound Card

HiTeC PCI HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1
Sound Card 12/30/2004 10:01 AM

Review: External USB sound card from
Hercules

Review: External USB sound card from
Hercules 03/30/2005 11:46 AM
External peripherals are not all that common, and external sound devices are even less so. We're so used to having competent sound capabilities built into our systems that most of us don't give it any thought. The Hercules GameSurround Muse Pocket USB is a unique external sound card that communicates through a USB port. It doesn't work as well with GNU/Linux as we'd like it to, but it still may be useful if you have a need for a portable sound card.

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 PCI
sound card

M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 PCI
sound card 08/04/2004 07:58 AM
M-Audio today announced the Revolution 5.1 high-definition surround sound card for PCI-based Windows and Macintosh computers...

Turtle Beach Unveils Catalina Sound Card

Turtle Beach Unveils Catalina Sound Card 08/27/2004 05:25 PM
Review: After nearly four years, Turtle Beach has a new sound card on the market. Turtle Beach has always made pretty solid sound cards, but can the Catalina continue that lineage?

Philips' Ultimate Edge sound card @
TechReport

Philips' Ultimate Edge sound card @
TechReport 07/12/2004 09:04 AM

Sound Card Controlled Cold Cathode
review

Sound Card Controlled Cold Cathode
review 03/19/2003 10:46 PM

Talking credit A new fraud-busting card
that loves the sound of your voice

Talking credit A new fraud-busting card
that loves the sound of your voice 05/01/2004 11:41 AM
BBC May 1 2004 2:48PM GMT

The stuff is awesome.....but we can cut
down the price a bit on DVD writer,
cabinet,sound card, keyboard and m

The stuff is awesome.....but we can cut
down the price a bit on DVD writer,
cabinet,sound card, keyboard and m 07/08/2004 12:10 PM
TechTree Jul 8 2004 3:36PM GMT

"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her"

"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come out of the walls to
hurt her" 08/27/2004 03:50 PM

In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand?

In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand? 12/03/2003 04:54 PM
What is the sound of one hand clapping? An interesting excerpt from The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans With Answers that involves a dialogue between the master and the student that answers this koan. (I suppose this could technically be considered a spoiler.)

Keeping Sound Out to Keep Sound In

Keeping Sound Out to Keep Sound In 06/05/2005 10:45 PM
Sony's new MDR-NC50 noise-canceling headphones try to block background sounds like rumbles from jet engines and subway trains that can overwhelm your chosen soundtrack.

India's No.1 Biz Card Reader which
creates Electonic Business Card Database
to be carried anywhere with
Laptop/Palmtop!

India's No.1 Biz Card Reader which
creates Electonic Business Card Database
to be carried anywhere with
Laptop/Palmtop! 06/01/2004 09:15 AM
Simply and efficiently scan and organize your business cards. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

The Star Wars Trading Card Game's First
Banned Card

The Star Wars Trading Card Game's First
Banned Card 04/12/2004 03:39 PM
Perhaps it was just a matter of time... a Dark Side deck posted on Rebelbasers revealed the awesome power of, believe it or not, the "lowly" Ugnaught. When used in conjunction with a few other cards, it became quite easy for this deck (or variations thereof) to leave a Light Side player with nothing but their initial Setup to go up against a deck that could virtually replenish itself indefinitely. Click here for the official announcement from Wizards of the Coast.

Axalto Adds U.S.-based Smart Card
Microelectronics Module Production at
its Maryland Advanced Card Center

Axalto Adds U.S.-based Smart Card
Microelectronics Module Production at
its Maryland Advanced Card Center 04/01/2005 06:50 AM
ZDNet India Apr 1 2005 10:23AM GMT

Pick a Card, Any Card

Pick a Card, Any Card 03/27/2005 01:38 PM
International signage. Gaian philosophy. Psychedelic illumination. Bohemian Cats. Crones. Radical Fairies. Though the venerable Rider-Waite (available in several versions), Crowley's Thoth, and the enduring Tarot de Marseilles continue to dominate most people's idea of Tarot, independent decks featuring a v ariety of themes breathe n ew l ife into the historical Tarot. No longer merely a fortune-teller's prop, Tarot is gaining popularity as a tool for do-it-yourself therapy. Even skeptics, who once speculated the decks were "used ... mainly in fortune telling" by emotionally crippled adults, are reluctantly (and subtly) revising their commentary on the cards.) Massive review sites post sample card images and extensive reviews. Associations and mailing lists provide community, and authors give away detailed "how to" courseware online. With thousands of decks on the market -- incorporating everything from the Life of Lord Buddha to subtle jabs at America's Favorite Fool -- your deck (even your virtual deck) is out there.

Sound

Sound 07/18/2004 05:42 AM
Sound

1)Canada Science and Technology Museum: Information on Sound
http://snipurl.com/7t3w
2)Art Ludwig's Sound Page
http://www.silcom.com/Ealudwig/
3)Fox Mill Elementary School: Sound Tasks
http://www.fcps. k12.va.us/FoxMillES/sound.html
4)Science Museum of Minnesota: The Sound Site
http://www.smm.org/sound/
5)American Institute of Physics: Physics as a Sound Investment
http://www .aip.org/success/soundinvestment/index.htm
6)Acoustics Research Institute
http://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/
7)Exploratorium: The Science of Music
http://www.explor atorium.edu/music/index.html

The science of sound is relevant to the music we hear and produce, the ways ships communicate underwater, and much more. The interactive aspect of the World Wide Web provides a fun platform for learning about sound. The websites covered in this Topic in Depth provide an overview of the science of sound, the applications of acoustics, and fun ways to learn about all of it. The Canada Science and Technology Museum provides a nice overview of the science of sound (1). The second website (2) also discusses some of the basics and also provides video and sound files to demonstrate the concepts. The third link takes you to a website that guides the visitor to various websites to get answers to some interesting questions about sound, such as What is the difference between noise and music? and how do dolphins use sound to communicate? (3). The Science Museum of Minnesota offers the Sound Site (4). For more on acoustics research areas, see some of the projects at the Acoustics Research Institute In Austria (6) such as omputational Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing. Last but not least, this website from the Exploratorium (7) takes you through some of the connections between science and music. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

A Sound of Thunder

A Sound of Thunder 09/04/2004 08:24 AM

MP3 sound bites

MP3 sound bites 09/06/2004 11:54 PM

In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites. Before I explain how it works, let's review why it exists. Audio content -- and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content -- is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye's ITConversations web site is a great example. It features audio interviews with IT personalities, as well as recorded speeches from conferences -- including the recent O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Kaye's audio engineering credentials are impeccable, but nowadays anyone can pick up a microphone and speak into an MP3 file. Today, for example, I listened to Dave Winer's thoughts on the business model for Wi-Fi and blogs, recorded while he was driving northward in Wisconsin. In my own journalistic work, I increasingly record and post audio interviews.

Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical breakthrough in speech-to-text translation -- and I'm not holding my breath -- we'll need to find another way to make audio content more granular, and easier to consume selectively. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

I've been using the service described here for a while now. For this column, the second in a planned series on hypermedia, I rewrote and published the code in hopes that others will be inspired to help move the project forward. ...

3D Sound by Creator of MP3

3D Sound by Creator of MP3 07/25/2004 09:05 AM

The Sound of Your Firewall

The Sound of Your Firewall 06/17/2004 09:52 AM

You know ERP, that sound ALF makes......

You know ERP, that sound ALF makes...... 09/03/2004 06:20 PM
From the Edges of IT Hell, ERP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning) implement...

Sound Orgy

Sound Orgy 11/16/2003 04:46 AM
It's quiet right now.

sound visualizer

sound visualizer 09/02/2004 10:15 AM
Overview

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening?

What is the Sound of One Ear Listening? 12/02/2003 12:36 AM
Paul Gilster writes about the problem of audiences at events with Wi-Fi access: The not-so-silent clacking of keys provides a sensory backdrop much like a white-noise generator. You speak, and a constant barrage of tippity tap tap clack clickety clack echoes in the background. It's not symmetrical: at times, people listen and the typing stops. Other times, one lone typer hammers away--is he or she blogging what you're saying or playing Doom? The sounds rises and falls randomly in different parts of the room. Interestingly, he talks about the second level of communication being a basement meeting, but I think he hasn't seen an O'Reilly conference in action. At Emerging Technology in April, there were always several simultaneous channels: it was more like instant analysis and commentary of a live event. People would blog and post; using IM, including IRC channels; use SubEthaEdit (ne Hydra) for Mac OS X Rendezvous collaborative note taking; use some of the unique services for discussion or note posting. [via Smart Mobs]...

Stop, hey, what's that sound?

Stop, hey, what's that sound? 07/07/2004 07:23 PM
People are just beginning, it seems, to wake up to the fact that most digital music today doesn't sound as good as it could. That's because the most popular compression formats -- including both the lingua franca MP3 standard and the standard Apple uses for its ITunes store -- are "lossy": To make the file size smaller, they trade off some loss of information (and therefore sound quality).

This latest round in the discussion seems to have kicked off with a Randall Stross column in the Sunday New York Times, but it dates back at least as far as Andrew Leonard's early, groundbreaking coverage of the MP3 phenomenon in Salon. Stross points out that Apple's choice of a good but still "lossy" compression standard for its music store means that -- surprise! -- you're really not getting CD quality audio when you pay for your $9.99 album.

Continuing the thread, Tim Bray writes: "I used to think that if you were listening to music on headphones on a bus or train or plane or in a crowd, the MP3 lossage really didn’t matter much. But recently I’ve been listening to the Shure 3C phones, and it’s obvious that we really shouldn’t be ignoring these compression issues; in particular since lossless compression is available right here, right now."

Well, yes. We have the technology! The problem here is not technical, it's political, legal, financial.

The odd thing to me is that Stross's column -- which appeared in the Business section, after all -- failed to mention the obvious: that the record labels are selling lossy versions of songs online because they still distrust the new medium, even when it is being used legally and when people are paying for their product. They're more interested in propping up their sagging CD business than in quickly exploiting a new marketplace. So after years of dithering they figure, OK, we'll sell our wares on the Net -- but let's only provide crippled versions. The crippling applies not only to Apple's DRM schemes (lord knows whether you'll still have access to that music, 10 years and three computers from now) but to the 128 kbps bit rate of the songs you buy. It was one thing to accept that tradeoff in 1998 when MP3s were underground, hard disks were smaller and most of the world was on dialup connections. Today, it makes no sense.

I don't doubt that the DRM and bit-rate compromises were part of the horsetrading Steve Jobs had to engage in to get the record labels in the door in the first place. But it doesn't make me want to sink my cash into purchases on iTunes. (At EMusic, by contrast -- which I still subscribe to despite my hissy fit when they stopped offering unlimited downloads -- I pay for music and receive it uncrippled by DRM and in a higher quality, though still not perfect, format.)

The prevalence of cruddy 128 kbps music in the online marketplace demonstrates that the music industry still don't believe in online distribution: It still don't trust us, even when we're paying for the music.

The real issue for the recording industry has never been loss of profits due to piracy, because no one has ever proven that there is a direct connection between piracy and declining CD sales (in fact, quite the contrary). What the industry fears is loss of control. Individual consumers -- like Andrew, who wrote a column about this last week -- want to buy their music and then do whatever they want with it: Put it on an iPod, put it in the car, burn new CD mixes, share with friends. It's what we've always done with our music, after all; we just have better tools today.

There are audiophiles out there, of course, who turn up their noses at "CD quality" -- which is itself "lossy" compared with higher-quality audio formats. But meanwhile, the vast majority of music lovers who are reasonably content with their CDs aren't getting their money's worth when they buy online.

So remember: when you rip your own CDs to MP3, use at least a 160 kbps rate, or higher if you've got a big disk, or a "Variable Bit Rate" if your ripper supports that. The added file size is negligible given how cheap storage is today, but your ears will thank you. And the next time you think of buying music from an online store, tell them you won't settle for anything less.

SoX - Sound eXchange

SoX - Sound eXchange 08/15/2004 03:26 PM
SoX 12.17.5 released

Desire, Thy Name Is Sound

Desire, Thy Name Is Sound 11/11/2003 11:21 PM
Lust

Sound bites

Sound bites 08/12/2004 11:35 AM
The following blurb appeared in my RSS reader this morning:

Paul Graham: Great Hackers

In one of the most entertaining presentations [clip] from OSCON 2004, Paul Graham answers the questions, what motivates great hackers? [clip] What do they need to do their jobs? How do you recognize them? [clip] How do you get them to come and work for you? [clip] And how can you become one?

[IT Conversations]

I missed Paul Graham's talk at OSCON, but caught some of the ripple effects -- in particular, the reaction to his trashing of Java in favor of Python. This blurb, from the IT Conversations RSS feed, gave me a link to the clip. By repeating the link here, in conjunction with some keywords -- "Paul Graham Java Python" -- I'm pretty certain that in a week or so, this Google query will lead you to the item you are now reading, and thence (if you're so inclined) to Graham's controversial remark, and thence (if you're further inclined) to the complete 30-minute segment posted by Doug Kaye at IT Conversations. ...

Miniscule of Sound

Miniscule of Sound 07/14/2004 10:00 AM
This sounds pretty funny en pixel, and I'm sure it'd be even more if you stumbled on it at a humongoid ravefest with e'd out dancing bodies as far as they eye can see. It's a parody of techno music industry media gigantor Ministry of Sound.

Following on from the ice-cream van dub sound system and the piano bar on wheels, i'd like to draw your attention to the Miniscule of Sound. i've been going to summertime festivals in the uk for years, and these guys have been on the circuit for almost a decade. It's basically a converted horsebox kitted out on the inside with disco ball, coloured lights, day-glo fluffy roof, light-panelled dancefloor, and a dj (usually) dressed as one of the vilage people playing something cheesey on a tiny pair of decks. The door staff on the outside advise us they are "'avin it tiny!" on the way in. Club capacity is about 8, maybe 9 at a squeeze. As clubbing experiences go, it's one of the best and it's free. If you see them at a festie this year, pay them a visit.

Link (thanks sim0nkey!)

What's the sound of silence?

What's the sound of silence? 07/15/2004 05:17 AM
it's the sound of your heart beating it's the sound of darkness It's the sound of the wind blowing life...

All Sound Recorder Pro v2.10

All Sound Recorder Pro v2.10 07/01/2004 10:18 PM
Records all sound from your computer's sound card into MP3, WMA, Wav, OGG files directly (such as convert ra, ram, rm to mp3), built-in a cool sound efferts editor. You can use it to grab any sound, including music, dialogs from movies, game sounds etc. from your local computer or the internet. Captured sounds can be saved in WAV,MP3,WMA or OGG format, using real-time conversion (without creating temporary files). [Shareware $29.95 2.64 MB]

Any Sound Recorder v1.00

Any Sound Recorder v1.00 07/01/2004 06:53 PM
An audio software built in recording, editing and coverting sounds to MP3, WAV, OGG popular music format file. Typically it allows you to record sound from various input sources, edit audio files as you desired by cutting, copying, pasting, trimming and various DSP effects, save audio in popular WAV/MP3/OGG music formats. [Shareware $24.95 1.27 MB]

What's that hissing sound?

What's that hissing sound? 08/10/2004 08:41 AM
Worried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is next on the endangered hydrocarbons list.

The Sound Of The Future

The Sound Of The Future 12/24/2003 10:26 PM
Far from being pessimistic about the state of music in the digital era, the major labels in Japan are excited about the prospects in front of them. By Paul Jackson (Daily Yomiuri via MyAppleMenu)
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