Analog waveforms (top) are continuous and theoretically have an infinite resolution. Digital audio on the other hand is sampled and does not have continuous waveforms. Steve Guttenberg ...

To hear digital audio it has to be converted to analog. The chip that does that is called a digital-to-analog converter, and there's one in your iPod, computer, and CD, DVD, and Blu-ray players.

EDIT 2: This is pretty close to what I want, but ideally, I'd also like it to have a digital (non-HDMI) audio out so that I can send a digital stream to my receiver (to power my speakers) and the ...

Techole Digital to Analog Audio Converter This little aluminum black box is all you’ll need to convert digital coaxial and TOSLINK signals to analog, giving you the options of RCA and 3.5mm ...

The XDS-PRO4 satellite receiver also uses Analog Devices' high-performance analog technology. ADI's ADAU1328 is an octal 24-bit, 192KSPS audio digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that enables ...

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has recognized this problem and in 1999 developed the SMPTE 318M-1999 standard that address the issue of accurately and repeatedly ...

An audio interface provides several vital functions: It gives you mic, line, and instrument inputs that feed analog-to-digital converters and then send the digital data to your computer-based DAW.

Test and measurement in the digital age Sep 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE Maintaining quality and reliability in a modern digital facility presents some new and significant challenges when ...

HITTING HOME Now that our Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio stream (or streams) has been combined with MPEG video and other types of data to form a transport stream that is then either 8-VSB- or COFDM- ...

Robert Siegel talks to Jamie Howarth about the next step in audio restoration: ridding analog-era sound of its inevitable speed variations by writing software that virtually recreates the original ...

Any digital audio that improves on these qualities is thus considered hi-res. As an example, Apple Music offers its hi-res audio catalog in 24-bit, with sample rates ranging from 48kHz to 192kHz.

VHS video tape - an analog medium - stores a continuous curve of modulated audio/visual information. In a digital CD continuous audio is sliced into 44,100 frames a second, and represented by ...