Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

The debate over whether analog or digital sound is preferable is very delicate, about as resolvable as arguing about which is the better sport. There are people who swear by either side. On one side ...

As consumers increasingly use their mobile phones to listen to their music collections, the demand for high-end audio quality increases. For many mobile phone audio engineers this means the adoption ...

For someone like me—an avid record collector with profound hearing loss—the past decade has produced severe cognitive dissonance caused by two contrary developments. First, vinyl came back; then, good ...

We have always been such suckers for the shiny new object, especially now, with digital technologies coming fast and furious at consumers’ kryptonite — the compulsive desire to own the latest and ...

We’ve been looking for a USB tube pre-amplifier to sweeten the sound of digital music files as they travel between a computer and a sound system. That quest continues, but it has revealed something ...

Digital technology can’t replicate the sound of gear from the 1950s and ’60s, Sean Wolcott and Craig Curran say. For the past 30 years, Everett musician Sean Wolcott has collected artifacts from a ...