Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

In my August column, “The Audio World Without ISDN,” we looked at the impending demise of ISDN and the options available for those who can no longer get service. With telcos pushing everything into ...

In previous articles we have discussed several popular audio codecs in use today. In this installment we address advanced audio codecs currently in use. Designers employing audio codecs face a ...

A variety of audio compression technologies are being used today, each having a distinct advantage over the other in terms of compression ratio, coding delay, coding complexity or legacy system ...

Alexander Zink is senior business development manager for Digital Radio and Streaming Applications at Fraunhofer IIS. Stefan Meltzer is technology consultant for Fraunhofer IIS. The nature of ...

Four high-performance, multichannel audio codecs are available for use in home entertainment systems, DVD video and audio players, automotive audio systems, a/v receivers, and digital audio effects ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2006--SigmaTel, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGTL), a leader in mixed-signal multimedia semiconductors, announced today the immediate availability of a new family of 4-channel HD ...

One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

Audio codecs dictate the quality, stability, and power use of a headphone's Bluetooth connection. But they're hide-and-seek champions on Android. That said, we’re not always shown our audio codec ...