The market for audio applications and devices has significantly grown over the last couple of years. Applications such as smart speakers, Bluetooth speakers, smartphones, and voice-controlled ...

Editor’s note: this article begins an ongoing series of technical reviews of audio codecs, how they work, and common applications. Audio codecs are among the most important innovations affecting the ...

We casually speak of digital audio, often referring to it as AES audio, perhaps AES3 (for the number of the AES standard), or by an older term AES/EBU. But what exactly is this AES3 signal? Here’s the ...

As we discussed at the beginning of this series, sampling has nothing to do with digitization, or quantization. A sampled signal can remain in the analog domain, though digitized signals are sampled ...

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 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 ...

The Mach 2 in Milano, Italy, is a 5.1 audio surround facility that features three audio studios and an editing suite equipped with Avid Pro Tools HD digital audio production systems. Photo courtesy ...

Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...