I originally purchased the HS-1A when I was still on Bethel Island in East Contra Costa, CA, USA, as a test item; 50mm transducers were an up-and-coming item at the time.  Sound proved a little better than the Plantronics® GAMECOM® 380 that would supersede them.  The sound went bad, however, after only three months; when I opened the right earcup to investigate, I found much to my shock that all conductors in the harness are at best 30 AWG.  Needless to say, repair was impossible with the tools I had at the time, and the earcup's lack of available...

I purchased this card originally to replace a failing Creative Laboratories® SB0350 PCI 2.2 audio card (Creative Technology CA0102 DSP) and SB0250 I/O Drive in the Hot Rod gPC™; but it was quickly transferred from the Hot Rod to my ASUS® CM1630-06 as previously upgraded (Advanced Micro Devices® Athlon II® X2 220, RS760G/SB700 chipset, PCIe RV970 Pro GPU (aboard ASUS® EAH6850DC/2DIS/1GD5); 750W Antec® PSU) when the 6 kHz scream that randomly dogged the XONARESSENCESTX/A - which ASUSTeK engineers were never able to replicate on a consistent basis -...

I originally purchased this audio card for an Asus® CM1630-06 previously upgraded with the same vendor's EAH6850DC/2DIS/1GD5 PCI-Express x16 video card plus an Antec® TruePower™ 750 Blue for sufficient video performance for podcasts and similar live over-the-Web activities at UStream® Television. Even with the bone-stock Japan Radio Corporation JRC2114D dual operational amplifiers in the I-V and National Semiconductor®/Texas Instruments® LM4562N in the line-level buffer position, this card is plenty accurate and has room for further tuning. I found...