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 ...

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 ...

I thought I was done with this series about audio basics. However, reader Eric Smith wrote in and asked if I would write about matching signal levels between equipment and sources, and not just ...

Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day — we dig deep into each topic's history and how it benefits our lives. You can follow the series here. Looking to suggest a ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

A couple months back, I taught a seminar about audio for a joint session of the Connecticut Broadcasters Association and the local chapter of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. Only about 10 percent ...

We have other articles which will help you actually connect your home theater system. This article assumes that you are indeed getting sound and video through the components and that you are ready to ...

In the age of smartphones, audio recording apps have transformed the way we capture and share sound. From recording interviews and lectures to creating podcasts or music demos, these apps offer a ...

Bit rate, bit depth, sample rate... what's the difference? Part one of a series on digital audio gives you the scoop on the basics of digital audio in its most common, uncompressed form.