I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

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The Mach 2 in Milano, Italy, is a 5.1 audio surround facility that features three audio studios and an editing suite equipped with Avid Pro Tools HD digital audio production systems. Photo courtesy ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

The standard AES3 signal can carry up to two channels of digital audio, either on 110 ohm twisted pair or 75 ohm coaxial cable. However, a single coaxial, and for that matter fiber-optic cable, is ...

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

S/PDIF has been around for a long time; it’s still a really great way to send streams of digital audio from device A to device B. [Nathan Ladwig] has got the ESP32 decoding SPDIF quite effectively, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. The FiiO M23 can be used with Bluetooth earphones or wired ...

The Wattson Audio Emerson Digital streamer is not inexpensive but it offers straight forward high-end digital playback that delivers sonically. Digital audio network streamers are one of the fastest ...

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 ...