MP3 has been the most popular lossy audio file format for decades, but AAC is now a popular alternative. Here's what you need ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...

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 ...

Replay: Make sure you get your audio settings and recordings right with this important guide from Tim Dunphy. Sound often gets given the backbench within the video world. Whilst the concepts of ...

Does upsampling in digital audio actually improve DAC performance, or just make lower quality files look like high resolution audio? Upsampling, oversampling, upconversion, supersampling, and ...