Your TV may have a port labelled for optical audio, but it's a sorely underused port that most consumers may not even realize they have. Here's what it does.

If you've ever taken a look at the back of your computer, you've no doubt seen the rainbow of holes that make up the different audio ports your motherboard has to offer. You'll also spot many of the ...

New silicon designs apply AI to processing and enhancing digital audio. Cadence has new IP to simplify the work.

Edison Research has revealed results of the Infinite Dial 2025 and while podcasting was the report’s shiny star, AM/FM radio continued its consistent – and ubiquitous – performance as streaming and ...

S/PDIF has been around for a long time; it’s still a really great way to send streams of digital audio from device A to device B. [Nathan Ladwig] has got the ESP32 decoding SPDIF quite effectively, ...

Basso goes large with its new flagship digital audio player with modular amps and batteries, plus a dual operating system and ...

Astell&Kern (A&K) has released a new version of its flagship portable digital audio player that is even more portable and more affordable. The A&K A&Ultima SP3000M takes virtually every feature found ...

Whatever the first computer you used to manipulate digital audio was, the chances are it came with dedicated sound hardware that could play, and probably record, digitized audio. Perhaps it might have ...

David Shapton on why vinyl is not the only game in town when it comes to vintage audio formats. Nobody could have missed the revival of vinyl records. It’s way more than just a fad—it’s a movement.