Discover how Android handles high-resolution audio, USB DACs, and Bluetooth codecs — and how to get the best sound from your smartphone.

Six 28- and 44-pin 16-bit dsPIC DSCs (digital-signal controllers) each include a dual-channel, 100k-sample/sec, 16-bit audio DAC module. The DMA-enabled devices have 16 kbytes of RAM, including 2 ...

In the age of highly compressed music files playing on iPods and even lower-quality Pandora streams playing on iPhones, some artists, music producers, and others in the music industry are apparently ...

Chandler, Ariz.—Microchip Technology Inc. announced six 28- and 44-pin 16-bit dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) with a dual-channel, 100-ksps, 16-bit audio digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) ...

The term lossless is a big one in music streaming right now. Ever since Apple Music rolled out lossless-quality tracks to its subscribers at no extra cost, it forced the hand of all the legacy ...

Oki Electric claims to have the smallest 16-bit audio codec which it is targeting at recording and playback applications in portable devices. Measuring just 2.0×2.5mm, the audio codec is designed to ...

We've rounded up some of the best (and still affordable) products for you to get the most bang for your buck. Read now Encoding has always been part of digital audio. Lossless formats encode ...

Less than 10 days after it become available, Apple's Logic Pro X was updated on Thursday to version 10.0.1, addressing issues that would down-convert 24-bit audio to 16-bit, inadvertently flatten ...

Unlike video tech, which seems to change every 10 years or so, audio has stayed largely the same for decades. If you bought a decent microphone and interface a decade ago or more, there’s a good ...

Since publishing our preview of Gigabyte's GA-X38T-DQ6, a board that uses the Realtek ALC889a codec and supports HDCP content encryption, it became apparent that this doesn't matter for Cyberlink's ...