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 ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

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 ...