Axpona 2018- The Renaissance Of High- Quality Sounds

Audio Expo North America (AXPONA) is the largest high-end audio show in North America. The three-day experience (April 13–15, 2018) featured multiple hotel floors packed with listening rooms, The Exhibit Hall featuring Ear Gear Expo and The Record Fair, seminars, and live musical performances.

Back Emf Phase Relationships In Moving- Coil Loudspeakers (Part 3)

In the third article in this series, we discuss the concept of slip, in order to explain how and why it causes the impedance to be inductive, resistive, or capacitive, depending on frequency.

What Was That Masked Sound Anyway?

In this article, Richard Honeycutt explains the process of sound masking, how it is used, and ways that it can occur unintentionally.

Stereo Listening - Acoustics, Electroacoustics, And Pychoacoustics

Our experience of sound is necessarily subjective, but knowing the history of the science of stereophonic sound can help us to make intelligent decisions about our listening spaces and equipment.

MPEG-H Audio Brings New Dimensions To Tv Sound

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS designed a way to significantly improve immersive sound reproduction capabilities on consumer playback devices, based on MPEG-H decoding and rendering and Fraunhofer’s upHear soundbar processing. This article is a technology update on MPEG-H and Fraunhofer upHear implementations, now available for licensing to audio video receiver (AVR) and soundbar manufacturers.

Exploring Master Quality Authenticated (Part 1) - Measuring The Difference

By now, I expect every music enthusiast has heard about Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) and how the high-frequency content is folded, origami fashion, into the low-frequency region. An MQA decoder (DAC) unfolds the highs back to their proper spectral location. The theory sounds great but because we can’t directly hear this upper register, how do we know what’s actually there?