IEMs or In ear monitors have become very popular these days. A few years ago very few IEMs existed, and these were priced generally very high. For the lower end market earbuds were the popular choice while IEMs were for the discerning few. US and European companies like Etymotic ears, Ultimate Ears, Shure and others [...]

RHA Audio is relatively unknown to the audio scene. They are a UK based company making inexpensive headphones and earphones. The earphone on review today is their flagship RHA MA450i IEM which at 40 pounds is quite low priced when you consider top tier IEMs sell at upwards of $500 these days. These earphones are [...]

This is Creative’s ‘entry level’ sound card featuring its current flagship Audio Processing Unit. The mid tier ‘Professional ‘variant was reviewed here earlier. The main difference between the Professional variant and this card is that this card lacks the EMI shielding found in the higher end card and also the attachable boom microphone. However, the [...]

Introduction Creative launched the successor to their popular X-Fi series with the Recon 3D THX USB sound card. The Recon 3D THX is a USB powered sound card though there are PCI-E versions using the same quad core processor to handle all the sonic requirements. The heart of this sound card is a very fancy [...]

Introduction While the flavor is 5.1 gaming headphones, many a time people prefer a good old 2 channel headphone. The advantage is that you can use a 2 channel headphone even for listening to music from a portable audio device. So while Coolermaster has 2x 5.1 headphones available in India they have also launched the [...]

iDance Audio (NFSW Link) isn’t a very well known company but they are exclusively into headphones. Their headphone designs are a bit funky in appearance and anyone might mistake these as poser headphones – all looks zero substance. However I was intrigued that they have so many different models but while many smaller headphone manufacturers [...]

Zalman was the first manufacturer to launch a 5.1 surround sound headphone many years ago. It didn’t sound very good and it went out of the market rather quickly. However many other manufacturers decided to launch their own versions of a 5.1 headphones and today there are plenty of big name computer accessory manufacturers like [...]

The Coolermaster Storm Sirus S may sound familiar already. That is because the Sirus S is based on their already existing Storm 5.1 gaming headset. In case anyone is interested in reading the earlier Sirus Storm review may click here Coming back to the newer Storm S, the differences between this and the older Storm [...]

Many would still remember the good old days when discrete/separate sound cards and graphics cards were the norm and inbuilt sound cards were unheard off. The Creative Soundblaster series were very popular then as a more premium solution. When integrated sound cards started become common they used pretty poor performing audio chips and the results [...]

Introduction There are plenty of computer speaker systems available in the market. However most require the use of an external power supply which limits its usage for something that can be moved like a laptop. Laptop speakers are generally very small and the sound quality is less than decent in a majority of cases. So [...]