I first heard of Dolby Digital Live (DDL) back when nVidia motherboards featured their Soundstorm. I thought this was a neat feature. The Yamaha speakers I had (5.1) had a receiver that would decode ...

Last time, signal encoding and data structure were covered as well as some information about AES3 — the balanced version of the standard. This tutorial will start with the AES3id unbalanced version ...

I currently have my Windows 7 machine (with an M-Audio Audiophile 2496) outputting a stereo signal over coaxial S/PDIF to my receiver. For some reason, my receiver (Yamaha RX-V465) seems to have ...

In Part 1 of this article, we discussed some of the basic system considerations associated with using audio data converters. We focused on the control method and the basic audio performance metrics ...

Apple recently announced its lossless audio option for the Apple Music streaming service. Additionally, the company will also be offering lossless high-resolution audio as well as surround sound audio ...