You may have heard of the audio formats Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus, but what's the actual difference between them?
How to decide which of these surround sound formats is best for your home theater.
The Dolby name appears on a lot of audio products. Dolby Cinema and Dolby Digital are both under that umbrella, but there's a ...
The world around us is analog. Our perception mechanism is also analog. Standard audio transducers such as the microphone and the loudspeaker are analog devices. Sound perception of humans occupies ...
TVs, phones, and tablets can present beautiful video that has gotten steadily better in recent years. But audio quality has gone up and down, and some listeners believe it's now worse than it was 10 ...
Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get it? Here’s what to know. There’s a difference, of course, between “putting ...
DAX, the audio SSP and sales company, is working to prove that fragmented audio inventory can deliver scale and outcomes for ...
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, ...
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With the sophistication of modern smart phones, audio ...
Many many moons ago I worked at a radio station. On top of that, my wife managed a record store. So, between the two of us, we built up quite the collection of CDs, cassettes and vinyl. Now it's come ...