A quick primer before you spend $100 or $10,000 on your next sound system.

Choosing the right audio format matters to every producer and mastering engineer. When you know precisely when to use WAV, MP3, or FLAC, your workflow becomes more efficient and your masters retain ...

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) today announced that leading content-encoding solution providers will use Dolby® Digital Plus technology to enable high-quality ...

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 ...

Asking for "the best" <i>anything</i> is asking quite a bit, but that doesn't stop hordes of people from asking us what the best way to encode audio files is. For this edition of Ask Ars, we want to ...

In the last 15 years, as digital music has slowly but surely extinguished the analog flame, the focus with digital audio has always been on enabling easy access, portability, and manageability of the ...

The ability to transport audio and video over Ethernet/Internet has been around for years, so how is IP audio different? The simple answer is that there are similarities in terms of how the data is ...