Our trip through the world of audio technology has taken us step-by step from your ears into a typical home Hi-Fi system. We’ve seen the speakers and the amplifier, now it’s time to take a look at ...

Five-star DACs from Audiolab, Cambridge and Chord Electronics that will boost your laptop-and-headphones system ...

Functionality of ADC/DACs, their performance characteristics, and how they have been improved. Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of various ADC/DAC architectures. How ADC/DACs are used in ...

We were recently tipped off to quite a resource — on the Texas Instruments website, there’s a page where you can view and download a compendium of analog sub-circuits. Individual circuits can be ...

There was a time when an "honest" (e.g., DNL 1/2 LSB) 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) was an expensive, premium component. Nowadays they're almost jellybeans ...

The TruStream is Leak's first-ever music streamer ...

Lina 2.0 brings a range of new features, including new Mapper settings, filter options, and balance control, to the dCS Lina Network DAC. There are very few brands in high-end audio that deserve to be ...

Every smartphone has both a built-in amplifier and digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The amplifier cranks the audio signal to a level so that your headphones (or the smartphone’s speakers) can ...

In Mixed-Signal Circuits, Part 1: From s to z – The Discrete Complex-Frequency Domain, discrete-time analog circuit analysis introduced the z-domain, a simple shortcut from discrete time-domain ...

The Aavik Acoustics D-180 DAC delivers almost state-of-the-art sound quality at a very high price but well below the category leaders. Aavik claims that their Aavik Acoustics D-180 DAC has no “digital ...