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

The future of audio is digital and the quality produced by digital audio is of great importance to broadcasters, producers, live venues and the listening audience. Digital audio can be prone to ...

This is part one of a set of articles exploring some common myths and misconceptions surrounding digital audio. Time and again I am surprised that even experienced and well-respected audio engineers ...

One of the fundamental processes involving digital signals is sampling. When sampling video and audio, the question inevitably comes up as to what is optimum sampling. Just how much resolution do we ...

The CS8420 is a Digital Audio Sample Rate Converter featuring transceiver with asynchronous sample rate converter and flexible 3-wire serial digital I/O ports. It has pin and microcontroller ...

Do you lose something when you go from analogue to digital? Why do so many of us still believe vinyl will always sound better than digital reproduction? The arguments have a lot in common with the ...

Problems can occur in dubbing digital audio from one device to another (including digital VTRs). Among the symptoms are pops or clicks in the dubbed material. Sometimes these are at a low level and ...

We're living the audiophile dream! Our phones can hold a year's worth of music and stream more songs than anyone could listen to in a lifetime. But none of that would be possible without the efforts ...

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 ...

If your audio fidelity experience has only been in the form of CDs, MP3s, or lower-quality streaming services (such as Spotify and YouTube Music), you may be missing out on some audio bliss. There’s a ...

My article last week about whether you could build a camera in a shed sparked off discussions in all directions, but a persistent one was whether you lose something when you go for analogue to digital ...