Although CDs have been prevalent for nearly twenty years, audio has remained mostly analog, with the digital music on the CD being converted to analog inside the CD player and taken through analog ...

Digital audio products are complex systems, comprised of numerous software and hardware subsystems. If you've already read “Anatomy of a Modern Digital Audio Product” you've seen many of these ...

Does upsampling in digital audio actually improve DAC performance, or just make lower quality files look like high resolution audio?

A digital revolution is under way in audio. It began with digital mastering, analog-input Class-D amplifiers, and the CD, but the momentum is increasing. Today, partially digital systems are common, ...

Why the arrival of GPU-based audio is an inflection point that David Shapton reckons could be as pivotal as when MIDI rewrote the rulebook in the early 1980s. Audio on a GPU? Wait, what? GPUs are for ...

“First of all, 90% of your HD listeners are going to be in vehicles,” said Mike Pappas, vice president of global sales for Orban Labs. “This means that as you set up your processing, you will need to ...

Chord Electronics Quartet is a $35,995 upscaler with Blackbird WTA filtering, built-in ADC, and DAVE support. Your wallet has ...