A comprehensive set of audio-editing tools, but not enough to justify the high price.

A welcome update to the Sound Blaster that can deliver perceptibly better audio than onboard chips, but it goes beyond most people’s needs for PC audio.

It’s business as usual, but this consummate all-rounder continues to grow in power and value.

A fully digital multitrack audio production suite for under $2,500

Noise-cancelling earphones that won't break the bank, but the ANC7’s tend to warm your ears so much, you’re going wish for in-fan cooling.

Just how high end can a Bluetooth headset get? Very, as it turns out.

Creative has enjoyed a long reign as the driving force in consumer-grade PC audio for the better part of a decade.

A more mature version, taking it from sound cleaning and score creation to a powerful soundtrack composition tool.

Streaming is the process of taking large files, breaking them into smaller pieces and sending them to their destination where they are recompiled as they arrive, providing an audio, video or animated broadcast over the net.

It’s not underground radio, but it’s the next best thing.

WinFM is a neat little package dedicated to Internet radio, although that term is a little abstract, because theres no radio waves involved.

Despite the fact it's aimed at professional users - corporate and event videographers and advanced home-video enthusiasts are the target market - Ulead DVD Workshop 2 retains many of the ease-of-use features for which the company has become known.

Daikin may be more familiar to some as the producer of Scenarist, a high-end professional package which has been used in the authoring of many major blockbusters.

Logitech has a go at solving the problem of the rubbish speakers laptops are equipped with.

An inexpensive audio interface that lifts the podcasting fidelity bar out of the world of cheap plastic microphones.

It doesn’t do anything apart from simple music streaming, but the price and ease of use make this a good choice for getting music from one room to another wirelessly.

There are now literally dozens of MP3 players on the market. However, the arrival of MPZoos MP3 Disc Player brings a slight change in direction

A wireless music player that performs audio magic through its LCD enabled remote control. It’s easy to use, quick to setup but lacks video functionality. But we still really liked it.

The ProV is a product similar in nature to the Canopus ADVC-100 (page 44), but where the ADVC-100 is used for transcoding video streams with an eye on digital video work, the ProV is used to bring versatility to your computer monitor, or breathe life into any spare monitors youve got laying around.

Good picture, built in DVD player, easy to use -- all at a price you won't believe.