In previous installments of the AudioFile, we’ve talked about basic PCM audio, which encodes audio into a series of numbers that a computer can play or manipulate. We’ve also discussed the process of ...

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

Here's why I'm asking: I have a Denon AVR 3803 receiver. I like it quite a bit, except for one glaring (IMHO) omission; in order to use my Sennheiser wireless headphones, I have to run both analog and ...

The world’s first analog machine learning chip has arrived, claims Aspinity, the upstart from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, commercializing an always-on technology that originated from research carried ...

With the advent of computer-based music systems, Cambridge Audio’s DacMagic upsampling digital to analogue converter is the most affordable and effective way to upgrade any PC, network music device, ...

Digital recording and playback techniques were introduced to consumer electronics in 1981. Since then an ongoing debate has questioned the capacity of digital systems to reproduce the nuances and ...

If you’ve ever listened to an MP3, watched a movie on Netflix, or jumped on a Zoom call, you’ve used a DAC. Digital-to-analog converters (or DACs for short) are the unsung heroes of the digital audio ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—As television engineers age, those brought up in the era of analog signals and the subsequent transition to digital are retiring and talking hard-earned knowledge with them. Younger ...