As more and more consumer products are embracing the innate benefits of digital audio amplifiers, the demand is increasing for better and better audio fidelity at increasingly lower cost.

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...

Recently, a customer who had implemented a design using a high-performance, 120-dB-dynamic-range ADC/DAC pair complained that he was getting only 113-dB performance. At first glance, this issue ...

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...

This story is excerpted from the Radio World ebook “Streaming Best Practices.” Few people realize that xHE-AAC, the latest generation of the AAC codec family, includes an option for dynamic-range ...

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