In professional audio engineering, the Analog Front End (AFE) is the ultimate arbiter of signal quality. As the industry ...

An Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is an active interface between the analog and digital signal chains in an embedded system. An ADC converts analog signals into digital signals in electronic ...

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 ...

Following are the four "Master Quality" (MQ) categories of high-resolution audio, which were formalized by the major record labels in 2014. See high-resolution audio, PCM, analog, CD and DSD. Category ...

Over the years, we’ve seen tremendous improvements to the process of capturing sound in digital form and then playing it back for human ears. However, lossy compression, which cuts file sizes and ...

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Sony is turning up the volume on high-resolution music. The electronics company introduced a new line of products, coming this fall, that process and play a variety of high-resolution music formats, ...