This week's “Music Education Monday" explores a subject that's rather technical, but nevertheless of interest to any working musician who wants to distribute audio to the public. Engineer Andrew ...
A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...
HDMI has changed versions so many times it's been hard to keep up for most people. We've talked about the versions as part of other articles and documents, but it seemed fitting that we'd formulate ...
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Smartphones have long since surpassed the old MP3 player when it comes to portable music, and continue to include more and more impressive audio hardware to win over the audiophile crowd – from front ...
This article talks about the basic concepts behind AV receivers and home theaters, and how sound formats like Dolby and DTS are transforming these devices. The technology behind AV receivers. What are ...
The three lossless audio formats associated with Blu-ray players’ high-resolution audio soundtracks are Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) and Linear PCM (Linear Pulse-Code Modulation). These ...
The various home theater formats out there can be confusing. The average person might have a passing understanding that they want a setup with 4K, HDR, and Dolby Atmos, but they couldn't necessarily ...
Audio files come in a number of different formats. Some are lossy, such as AAC and MP3; they save space compared to the original files, but some of the original data is lost during compression. Some ...
AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Max already offer spatial audio when connected to an iOS device playing songs from Apple Music. But that's not all Apple has planned for spatial audio in 2025. At its ...
When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...