John Kean explains how the xHE-AAC codec utilizes metadata to shift dynamic range control from content producers to listeners ...

As more and more consumer products are embracing the innate benefits of digital audio amplifiers, the demand is increasing for better and better audio fidelity at increasingly lower cost.

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...

You may have seen dB specs thrown around for various products available on the market today. Table 1 lists a few fairly established products along with their assigned signal quality, measured in dB.

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...