If you were lucky and had well-off parents in the early 1980s, your home computer had a sound chip on board and could make music. There were a variety of chips on the market that combined in some form ...

Spotify’s new Exclusive Mode lets you bypass system audio processing on desktop, delivering bit-perfect playback and a cleaner listening experience, especially if you are using external DACs or ...

We have long been in the era of “one man band” media production. Outside of major digital cinema or documentary productions, most video and sound today are recorded with a minimal crew and budget.

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Spotify for Windows just got a big upgrade, and audiophiles are going to love this one.

If you’ve started to get into audio, you’ve probably seen something called “bit depth.” The thing is… what the hell is it? Well, we’re here to help. First off, bit depth is one of two metrics involved ...

I was told recently to use (at least) a 24 bit sample width during close-up recording of an acoustic instrument, in order to have sufficient headway (dynamic range) before any compression. I can see ...

Is he really mastering--performing noise reduction, compression, equalization, etc.?<BR><BR>Did he record the music with his sound card? If not, then it does not matter. The processing is done in the ...

Apple Music providing its lossless and Spatial Audio upgrade at no extra charge would normally put the ranks of competing lossless music streamers at a serious competitive disadvantage. But this is ...

As you have probably noticed, there’s a new trend in the smartphone industry of including “studio quality” audio chips inside modern flagship smartphones. While a 32-bit DAC (digital to analog ...