COLUMBIA — Sound Bites Eatery was on track to serve its last sandwich on Feb. 6, but the news of its impending closing piqued the interest of a private investment group that frequents the shop, ...

The size of digital audio samples. Converting voice from analog to digital is typically done with 4-bit and 8-bit samples at 6 or 8 kHz. The standard CD sampling is 16 bits at 44 kHz; however, higher ...

We have long been in the era of “one man band” media production. Outside of major digital cinema or documentary productions, most video and sound today are recorded with a minimal crew and budget.

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

Let’s hear it for the NFL. NFL Films executive Vince Caputo is certainly listening. For him, football is as much about the sounds as the sights. He headed a years-long NFL Films project to build a ...

We've rounded up some of the best (and still affordable) products for you to get the most bang for your buck. Read now Encoding has always been part of digital audio. Lossless formats encode ...

With the introduction of Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless technology, Bluetooth headphone customers will finally join their wired audiophile brethren with the option to listen to lossless quality audio. The ...

If you’ve started to get into audio, you’ve probably seen something called “bit depth.” The thing is… what the hell is it? Well, we’re here to help. First off, bit depth is one of two metrics involved ...

As you have probably noticed, there’s a new trend in the smartphone industry of including “studio quality” audio chips inside modern flagship smartphones. While a 32-bit DAC (digital to analog ...

The streaming wars continue to heat up. As Wayde discussed in his recent article: AT&T, Comcast and Disney Prepare to Destroy Netflix, Netflix has never faced as much competition as it will over the ...

The opening scene of season two of Netflix’s Stranger Things, a popular horror series that appeals to pretty much everyone who grew up in the 1980s, would sound great to the average ear. A little loud ...

If a heaping helping of ’90s alt-rock with a side of street food sounds like your perfect weekend, the inaugural Sound Bites Music & Food Festival in Gilbert on Saturday might hit the spot. The ...