From Jimi Hendrix to Merzbow, artist-made music with distortion has become increasingly widespread over the past half-century, evolving from a niche genre to a mainstream one. A new UCLA-led study, ...

Some iPods exhibit a "static" noise -- audible through headphones -- when the iPod is accessing its hard drive. (In general, the better the headphones, the more apparent the static. The issue is ...

Monsieur Fourier did an amazing thing when he figured out how to move between time and frequency domains. Scopes are inherently time-domain instruments, so let's see how much our eyes can tell us ...

Several readers report poor sound quality from the MacBook Pro's speakers. In particular, some readers are reporting that the right speaker outputs distorted or otherwise poor quality audio while the ...

Distortion pedals and overdrive effects usually have a bunch of lovely transistors or op-amps inside and lots of knobs and dials to tweak the sound to your personal taste. However, it’s possible to ...

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The last two decades have seen a striking decline in the quality of sound and listening experience. Compressed music, MP3s and streaming, have diminished the quality and flattened the emotion.

Part 1 looks at driving high-performance, high-speed ADCs, and benefits to using an input transformer in a differential inverting amplifier design Part 2 looks at adding an interstage filter between ...