If you’ve started to get into audio, you’ve probably seen something called “bit depth.” The thing is… what the hell is it? Well, we’re here to help. First off, bit depth is one of two metrics involved ...

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 ...

As you have probably noticed, there’s a new trend in the smartphone industry of including “studio quality” audio chips inside modern flagship smartphones. While a 32-bit DAC (digital to analog ...

If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing.

Our primer on Hi-Res Audio for those who think Spotify and the Apple iPod raised the bar for music playback. In response, Hi-Res Audio (or high resolution audio) may have been a form of pushback ...