How easily can you detect distortion on your audio system? An online interactive listening test gives you a chance to find out by testing your listening ability to detect nonlinear distortion for ...

An audio distortion analyzer is a specialist piece of analogue test equipment that usually costs a lot of money and can be hard to track down on the second hand market. Finding one is a moment of luck ...

In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Several readers report poor sound quality from the MacBook Pro's speakers. In particular, some readers are reporting that the right speaker outputs distorted or otherwise poor quality audio while the ...

A young chief engineer who knew a lot more about computers than transmitters and analog audio systems recently asked me for help in tracking down on-air distortion that had affected his mom-and-pop ...

Is your Sony SRS-XB13 sound quality not that good? There are various factors that can cause this issue such as a software glitch, audio source issue, or even a volume setting. To fix this, you will ...

Some iPods exhibit a "static" noise -- audible through headphones -- when the iPod is accessing its hard drive. (In general, the better the headphones, the more apparent the static. The issue is ...

The author is technical publications manager and a senior technical writer at Audio Precision in Beaverton, Ore. When reduced to its basics, the process of audio test and measurement is concerned with ...

With comprehensive PC control, unmatched programmability, and the highest precision and sensitivity of any audio analyzer made, the 2700 Series has established itself as the benchmark for audio test ...

What's required in a source for mixed-signal test. Key factors in achieving low distortion. Designing a signal-generation path. What is digital predistortion (DPD)? Using LDOs to power the test system ...

A few years back, I needed a quick, low-frequency, yet very low distortion source to test an onboard micro-controller ADC to see if it had anywhere near the effective number of bits (ENOB) and ...