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.

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 ...

Yes, the actual task of converting zeros and ones to analog signals is performed by a chip. And no, unless you’re an audio product designer or engineer, you wouldn’t buy a DAC chip on its own.

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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...