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Many music lovers who own vinyl LPs are proud of their collections. While it's true that vinyl offers a different sound quality than digital formats---analog recording and playback devices are...

When Sony introduced the compact disc in 1982, it revolutionized the music industry. Music was now stored on an optical disk, digitally coded in 1s and 0s. While its original promise of "perfect...

Analog served as the defining musical format for many years, but it has recently been overtaken by more efficient digital music. The former--exemplified by audiotape and similar formats--produces...

PCM audio is a high fidelity, uncompressed digital sampling of an analog audio signal. PCM sampling is the method of choice for DVD movie soundtracks, as well as hifi audiophile music production....

Analog technology dominated the audio industry for more than a century. Beginning with the first primitive analog devices of the 1870s, they were often the sole viable means of recording sound...

Analog technology dominated the audio industry for more than a century. Beginning with the first primitive analog devices of the 1870s, they were often the sole viable means of recording sound...

Using your computer as a multimedia powerhouse can be easily accomplished with a few components. Installing a high-quality video card and adding a LCD computer monitor and generous storage space...

Monitoring the sound of digital audio recordings is done in much the same way as monitoring audio recordings. All digital recorders will have an analog output, allowing you to monitor with...

New technology for electronics has given consumers many choices in answering machine models. It used to be that your standard machine was a mechanical device that recorded messages onto a tape....