Last week I wrote two blogs with opposing headlines, Why does analog sound better than digital? and Why does digital sound better than analog? The Comments sections of those two blogs ran hot and ...

Music was forever changed in 1983. Up to that year we had lived in a digital-audio-free world, where musicians and the music industry flourished in a state of pure analog bliss. Vast numbers of people ...

The debate over whether analog or digital sound is preferable is very delicate, about as resolvable as arguing about which is the better sport. There are people who swear by either side. On one side ...

“What microphone should I buy?” “What monitors are best?” As something of a “gear head,” these are the kids of questions I hear all the time—as if there was a simple, perfectly packaged answer I could ...

It seems like ever since the dawn of the new millennium consumer audio has been fixated with digital audio. As the old saying goes however, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. While digital ...

As consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to listen to their music collections, the demand for high-end audio quality increases. For many mobile phone audio engineers this means the adoption ...

Working out whether to invest in headphones with a 3.5mm jack or USB-C connector can be tricky. Turns out, there's a lot more to it than how you plug them in.

There is a new medium of music coming to market. It takes the aluminum disc elements of CD and combines it with lacquer painted Vinyl spirals that play music when a stylus is added to it. The company, ...

We’ve been looking for a USB tube pre-amplifier to sweeten the sound of digital music files as they travel between a computer and a sound system. That quest continues, but it has revealed something ...