Before we get right to it, a bit of background, essentially, Dolby is an audio compression technology – it makes sound like movie soundtracks, which is designed for vast rooms and huge, cinema-style ...

We’re spending more time at home working (and playing) on our desktops and laptops than ever before, and that means listening to our computer’s built-in speakers — which, likely, aren’t very good. An ...

The other day, I received a strange error – No Audio Output Device is Installed on my new HP laptop recently. I saw it when I hovered my cursor over the sound icon ...

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For laptops, MacBooks and desktop PCs, good audio can often seem like an afterthought. It’s hard to get quality sound from built-in speakers, which have to be crammed inside a hyper-thin chassis ...

Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac If you ever work on the road, you know relying on your laptop for sound can be as disappointing as relying on it instead of an external display for visuals. Not every ...

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