X, a new PCIe sound card designed for desktop users seeking dedicated high-resolution audio hardware and enhanced headphone ...

ESS Technology has been the quietest chipmaker in Silicon Valley. While its competitors grew huge, ESS shrank and almost disappeared from the face of the earth. But the company is bouncing back. In ...

The discrete sound card is dead, long live the discrete sound card! Wait, what? Here we are in the year 2026 and Creative is still pumping out discrete sound cards, the latest of which is a Sound ...

Creative's Sound Blaster AE-X offers 32-bit/384kHz processing and a high-quality ESS DAC, targeting Hi-Fi users looking for ...

At MMORPG, we first discovered Fiio with its line of affordable, pocketable headphone amplifiers. It's only fitting then, that we find ourselves in this edition of Golden Ears coming full circle and ...

This is from an earlier post in the A/V forum, maybe you guys can help out?<BR><BR>I'm on my second laptop with an ESS audio chip. (yuk!) My latest is a Dell 8100 w/ 32MB Geforce2Go. Obviously, I'd ...

Questyle M18i MAX adds LDAC, aptX HD, LE Audio, dual ESS DACs, and longer battery life. Is this the complete mobile DAC amp?

The new AuricSound ESS Twin SABRE 32bit ES9028Q2M 768kHz DSD512 DAC has launched via Kickstarter this week offering superior conversion and a purer sound, say it’s developers AuricSound. Watch the ...

Hey all,<P>My friend has a Compaq Presario 5000 with some kind of ESS sound built in. It got borked, so I wiped it clean and put Windows 2000 (it used to have Millenium), hoping Win2k would have the ...