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 ...

In my lifetime, music has been delivered on vinyl, cassettes, eight-track tapes, CDs, and audio DVDs. How do I listen to it now? Usually with a PC or a smartphone, and occasionally with an MP3 or ...

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