*image by cuidevices.com So we talk a lot about peaks, drops, and other problems in frequencies, we all love to look at graphs to prove our points, or say things like thin, warm, muffled. But what do those frequencies and […]
What are drivers To keep it really simple, a driver is a thing that ‘drives’ the air. The movement that the driver makes creates pressure waves, resulting in sound. The driver is the core of any loudspeaker of headphones, and […]
In the world of audio, there are not a multitude of services available, in this post, I will shed some light on some of them. I will try to list more but I will only say something about the ones […]
Let’s go over all the ways to connect your source to a DAC, go over the common problems first, since I will be referencing them while talking about connectors. A big note is that a digital file can’t lose quality […]
There is a lot of information going around about MQA and a lot of different opinions. if you want my one-line opinion it is this: MQA is not lossless and increases the cost of an already expensive hobby, it has […]
The audio bit depth determines the number of possible amplitudes values we can record for each sample. The most common are 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit. Each is a binary term, representing the number of possible values. 16-bit: 65,536 values 24-bit: […]
Pulse-code modulation is a method to digitally represent sampled analog signals. It is the standard form of digital audio. The original analog music waveform is described in two parts. The first is its amplitude(size). Represented by the number of bits. […]
There is a multitude of different compressions types used in digital media, here is a quick overview of the most common ones. They are separated into three categories: Uncompressed, Lossless, and Lossy. Uncompressed audio is just audio without any compression, […]
First, we have to understand how sampling works. For that, we need the Nyquist rate. This is the theoretical minimum sampling rate at which a signal can be sampled and still be reconstructed without any distortion. Conversely, a system can […]
Direct Stream Digital. Different than the PCM system. DSD uses a single bit but samples it 2.800.000 times a second to generate audio. For example, a 24-bit 96kHz file contains 24 bits and is sampled 96.000 times a second. This […]