We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard has been around for years and is what has made it easy for users to connect peripherals and other ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Aside from a charging port and a 3.5mm audio jack, you may have noticed that most speakers — whether wired or wireless — also come with at ...

The 2018 iPad Pro has no room for a headphone jack, but Kanex makes a USB-C adapter that includes the 3.5mm audio port needed for standard headphones or speakers. We tested this handy accessory with ...

Ever since the first rumors that popped up late last year that Apple will be dropping the headphone jack from its next iPhone, the tech world has gone into a tizzy. Since then other manufacturers have ...

Intel this week announced plans to usher in the adoption of an audio USB Type-C connector that would replace the standard 3.5 millimeter analog jack and eventually be capable of digital audio ...

How low can you go in price and still get a quality set of computer speakers? That’s the question Amazon effectively poses with each set of its AmazonBasics speakers. We may have found the answer with ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Although USB has long been able to ferry digital audio data, recent events in the mobile world have put that capability under a microscope. Specifically, the prophesied death of the 3.5 mm audio jack.

I have on-board realtek audio. Does it process audio coming from a USB headset with it's own USB amplifier on the cord plugged in via USB or does realtek only process hardware plugged into the 3.5 ...

In a sea of 3D audio products and true-wireless earbuds, USB Type-C headphones were nowhere in sight at CES 2019. This absence isn’t an accident, however. Rather, it’s the deafening silence of an ...

Apple isn't the only one who wants to say farewell to the 3.5mm headphone jack. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) last week announced new specs that pave the way for audio to be transmitted via ...