If you've just set up your surround sound system and want to see if it's working well, you should try these ways to put your ...

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High-quality audio devices and wearables are becoming more common and affordable, and that means there are more options than ever when it comes to purchasing. And audio quality itself is a subjective ...

For indifferent-quality audio, functional measurements suffice. Frequency response, THD, and some sort of noise measurement are generally enough to determine that an audio section will sound OK to a ...

A human ear that is reasonably young and has not suffered too much blasting from high sound levels can detect audio frequencies ranging from about 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Thus this is the range most often ...

The International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) has developed a testing process that uses human subjects to determine audio quality in digital systems that use lossy compression. Testers play ...

Audio-Technica sent its latest microphone, the AT2020, to the folks at Broadcast Engineering, who asked me to give it a thorough testing. My findings: This mic stands up to the sounds of rampant ...

There was an era in the evolution of home audio where choosing a wireless surround system over traditional wired speakers was an act of compromise. Hiding ugly speaker wire in the nooks and crannies ...