Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

As consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to listen to their music collections, the demand for high-end audio quality increases. For many mobile phone audio engineers this means the adoption ...

We have always been such suckers for the shiny new object, especially now, with digital technologies coming fast and furious at consumers’ kryptonite — the compulsive desire to own the latest and ...

In March, I reviewed the Como Blu, a brilliant Bluetooth streaming audio system from Boston’s Como Audio. What made the Blu brilliant? For $399 — the cost of a decent, upper-range portable Bluetooth ...

For someone like me—an avid record collector with profound hearing loss—the past decade has produced severe cognitive dissonance caused by two contrary developments. First, vinyl came back; then, good ...

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

We’ve been looking for a USB tube pre-amplifier to sweeten the sound of digital music files as they travel between a computer and a sound system. That quest continues, but it has revealed something ...

Digital technology can’t replicate the sound of gear from the 1950s and ’60s, Sean Wolcott and Craig Curran say. For the past 30 years, Everett musician Sean Wolcott has collected artifacts from a ...

If you've ever taken a look at the back of your computer, you've no doubt seen the rainbow of holes that make up the different audio ports your motherboard has to offer. You'll also spot many of the ...