The debate over whether analog or digital sound is preferable is very delicate, about as resolvable as arguing about which is the better sport. There are people who swear by either side. On one side ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

As consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to listen to their music collections, the demand for high-end audio quality increases. For many mobile phone audio engineers this means the adoption ...

We have always been such suckers for the shiny new object, especially now, with digital technologies coming fast and furious at consumers’ kryptonite — the compulsive desire to own the latest and ...

For someone like me—an avid record collector with profound hearing loss—the past decade has produced severe cognitive dissonance caused by two contrary developments. First, vinyl came back; then, good ...

We've discussed a number of steps to digitize your audio, but if you're looking to delve a bit deeper into ripping all that analog media, technology weblog Tested takes you through the process start ...

We’ve been looking for a USB tube pre-amplifier to sweeten the sound of digital music files as they travel between a computer and a sound system. That quest continues, but it has revealed something ...

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 ...