A blind listening experiment during Synth Week 2026 compared vintage hardware synthesizers with their modern software recreations and found minimal audible differences. The results question ...

A blind listening test by MusicRadar comparing vintage hardware synthesizers with modern software emulations found minimal sonic differences, challenging the belief that analog gear inherently sounds ...

I remember in 2003, or so, when EAX was touted to reduce the load on the CPU in demanding gaming. The sound cards would have a DSP to take care of all that sound stuff. The Xbox and Soundstorm ...

Over the past year, the importance of crystal-clear audio has become readily apparent on our computing devices. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many institutions implementing work/learn ...

Its because the hardware is only as good as the drivers so when it comes down to it, everything depends on software. Highly optimized software routines have the potential to outperform hardware with ...