When designing audio docking stations and accessories for portable digital audio devices and other digital audio sources, designers are constrained by cost while trying to deliver the highest-quality ...

One of the challenges for designing a docking system or device accessory is to perform the sample-rate conversion (SRC) without degrading the audio quality, and at the lowest cost possible. Fig 1. A ...

I use a SoundBlaster Play! 3 to record from an external analog (mono) audio source. This interface can sample in 24 bits at 48kHz. On Mac this is configured via the "Audio MIDI Setup" program. I don't ...

The IPB-I2S-TDM-ASRC combines an I2S/TDM configurable serial audio interface with two embedded stereo Asynchronous Sample Rate Converters (ASRCs). ...

You’re looking to dive into the world of audiophilia, and you’re instantly bombarded with terms that you don’t know. Hey, it happens to all of us! The best thing to do is to start slow and get your ...

A regular reader of this column would correctly surmise that the author considers audio to be a very important part of television. We are well into the digital age in television audio and video now, ...

Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...

USB, the Universal Serial Bus, has been around for decades and is a heavily used standard in the world of personal computers. Memory sticks, external drives, mice, and web cameras are all interfaced ...

The boundaries between mobile phones, tablets, and PCs are converging, becoming nearly nonexistent. As this convergence takes place, vendors serving these ecosystems must find common ways to enable ...

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Our top pick for best audio interface for Mac is Universal Audio's Apollo Twin X Quad. Photo: Universal Audio An audio interface serves as a bridge between your Mac and external audio sources like ...