Having a fondness for old and obscure audio and video media formats, [Techmoan] recently revisited the Philips Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) format introduced in 1992. Despite being billed as the ...

When we talk about signal levels, we use a logarithmic unit known as the decibel, or dB for short. Decibels represent the ratio between two different values, so we use them to describe amplitude ...

Digital audio transformed every aspect of recording, processing and playing back sound. In many ways, it led the way for digital video. It's been around since the Eighties, and the theory dates back ...

DSD, or Direct Stream Digital, is an alternative to PCM and was originally conceived for Super Audio CD (SACDs) – a format championed by Sony and Philips in the late 1990s and into the noughties. It’s ...