If you follow audiophile reviewers, you’ll know that their stock-in trade is a very fancy way of saying absolutely nothing of quantifiable substance about the subject while sounding knowledgeable ...

As we’ve traced our no-nonsense path through the world of Hi-Fi audio, we’ve started with the listener, understood the limitations of the human ear, and thence proceeded to the loudspeaker. We’ve ...

A young chief engineer who knew a lot more about computers than transmitters and analog audio systems recently asked me for help in tracking down on-air distortion that had affected his mom-and-pop ...

Some iPods exhibit a "static" noise -- audible through headphones -- when the iPod is accessing its hard drive. (In general, the better the headphones, the more apparent the static. The issue is ...

Is your Sony SRS-XB13 sound quality not that good? There are various factors that can cause this issue such as a software glitch, audio source issue, or even a volume setting. To fix this, you will ...

Using a circuit architecture said to address fundamental performance tradeoffs inherent in traditional differential input stages, the AD8099 op amp claims to combine the lowest noise (0.95 nV/Ö Hz) ...

Unlike video tech, which seems to change every 10 years or so, audio has stayed largely the same for decades. If you bought a decent microphone and interface a decade ago or more, there’s a good ...

My gaming PC has been running Windows 10 x64 since the alpha stage. It is now running a fully updated, non-insider programme Anniversary update build. Over the last couple of weeks, it has started to ...

Several readers report poor sound quality from the MacBook Pro's speakers. In particular, some readers are reporting that the right speaker outputs distorted or otherwise poor quality audio while the ...