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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fosi Audio MD3 tries to clean up that mess in a manner that will work for some.

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 ...