Chances are very good that you have been exposed to the artifacts of perceptual audio coding without even knowing it. Perceptual audio coding, in a general sense, is a method for reducing the amount ...

Lossy compression schemes can be based on a source model, as in the case of speech compression, or a user or sink model, as is somewhat the case in image compression. In this chapter we look at audio ...

Delivering seamless quality audio in real time using wireless technology is one of the great challenges facing the professional audio engineer. Wireless audio transfer has for some time been hampered ...

When Apple sidelined the 3.5-mm jack with the launch of last year’s iPhone 7, it looked like a bold move. But despite pockets of outrage over another clear case of planned obsolescence, it was a clear ...

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

An ordinance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) was issued in 2011 on revision of the audio coding formats of 8K Super Hi-Vision (8K) broadcasting using 22.2 multichannel ...

Wireless Audio is a current hot topic in Consumer Electronics. The world is wireless in many mediums, however high quality wireless audio has been slow to emerge. Delivering seamless quality audio in ...