Mary C. Gruszka

It's truly amazing the extent of available measurement tools that literally fit in the palm of a hand.

But how meaningful are these specs? Do they provide the information we need to differentiate performance among competing models?

Before the TEF analyzer came along, one would need a shelf full of different and expensive instrumentation

An Audio By Design reader named "Bro Duke," writes in about his microphone pet peeve, "their lack of internal filters.

If some friends invite you over to check out their favorite TV program on their new wide-screen flat-panel display, you may not want to mention how bad the lip sync is off.

Fingerprinting or correlation techniques involve comparing two signals, a reference source known to have no lip-sync error, and a second signal somewhere down the signal chain.

Are audio consoles obsolete in the age of digital audio workstations and computer audio editing programs? Not by a long shot.

As the AES3 digital audio standard allows for word lengths up to 24-bits as well as a variety of sampling rates, SMPTE 272M provides the means for embedding these signals.

The AES3 digital audio signal is composed of frames, with each frame containing a digital sample from each of two audio channels.

How do file-based and real-time loudness processors fit into an overall facility audio system?

For any kind of loudspeaker system to be practical, the drivers need to be mounted in some kind of enclosure.

It’s still the early days for mobile DTV, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that some audio issues are making themselves heard.