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Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2 Review
Five years ago, Creative launched their incredible Katana soundbar, and it was mighty impressive. It surprised me with just how freaking powerful it was, and frankly, I was always a little scared to take the volume up too much. The combination of multiple amplifiers and a dedicated subwoofer were always…
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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX V2 & DBPRO Review
There are many great audio solutions on the market these days, and actually, many modern motherboards have extremely competent solutions built into them. For most people, plugging your speakers straight into the motherboard is fine, or just using your favourite headphones. However, not every motherboard will meet your standards for…
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Thecus Expands TopTower NAS Series With the N6850PLUS
Thecus announced their soon to be released N6850PLUS, an epic NAS that brings rackmount performance in a tower design. The N6850PLUS is an upgraded version of the N6850 and it comes equipped with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM (expandable to 32GB) and the Intel Xeon E3-1225 processor. This 6-bay NAS…
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Waves Nx Give Your Headphones 3D Sound
When it comes to sound, we’ve not done much to change in since we started pumping it through speakers all those years ago. We started with mono sounds, pumping everything from any speaker that would allow it and then we decided to go to stereo sound. Stereo brought us sound from…
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Unity 5.1 adds Native Oculus Rift Support
Unity is one of the largest game engines around. The platform already supports a wide range of target technology, Windows and Linux PC’s, Macs, Android phones and tablets and iOS devices. Virtual reality will never get off the ground without the availability of tools to make things with. Unity realised…
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Android 5.1 Officially Announced
Google first announced that Android 5.1 is coming on Android One, giving a lot of reference to the software and stating that it is targeting developing countries. Now, the company has officially announced Android 5.1 via the Android blog . At first glance, the latest Android seems to bring minor…
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Synology Releases DiskStation Manager 5.1 OS
Synology has just released their DiskStation Manager (DSM) version 5.1, the latest version of Synology’s NAS operating system. After about 6 weeks of public beta testing and user feedback, Synology was ready to roll out the update without the beta tag. I’ve tested the DSM 5.1beta myself and it is awesome.…
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Roccat Kave XTD True 5.1 PC Gaming Headset Review
Introduction The Roccat Kave XTD has been one of my most anticipated headset ever. Not only was the original Kave 5.1 headset was nothing short of incredible, but the new one promises to improve on many aspects of the previous model. I first got hands on with this headset at…
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Optical Output On Xbox One Limited To Stereo Only
The Xbox One has literally just become available, however there is news going around that anyone with a surround sound headset will not be able to use them to their full potential at this moment in time. This is going to be severely bad news for a large number of…
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SpeedLink Medusa NX 5.1 Headset Review
Today is the turn of a headset, but from a company you have probably not heard of much or even at all, in fact excluding this one recent news story then they have not been mentioned on this site. This is mainly due to them being very focused on their own German market.…
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