I thought I was done with this series about audio basics. However, reader Eric Smith wrote in and asked if I would write about matching signal levels between equipment and sources, and not just ...

This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us. Once again, I hope you find it useful, or that you can ...

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Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in ...

In Part 1 of this article, we discussed some of the basic system considerations associated with using audio data converters. We focused on the control method and the basic audio performance metrics ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

A Class D audio amplifier is basically a switching amplifier or PWM amplifier. There are a number of different classes of amplifiers. We will take a look at the definitions for the main ...

The Alpine CDE-141 won't blow you away with bells and whistles, but this entry-level car stereo gets the basics right at a competitive price. Antuan Goodwin Senior Writer, Electrified Cars Antuan ...