You’re looking to dive into the world of audiophilia, and you’re instantly bombarded with terms that you don’t know. Hey, it happens to all of us! The best thing to do is to start slow and get your ...

In this guide, we will show you how to change the Sample Rate as well as the Bit Depth in Windows 11. We will do the following things in this post. Change Sample Rate and Bit Depth for Audio Output ...

I use a SoundBlaster Play! 3 to record from an external analog (mono) audio source. This interface can sample in 24 bits at 48kHz. On Mac this is configured via the "Audio MIDI Setup" program. I don't ...

As you probably know, Apple Music offers various lossless audio formats. Some are 16-bit/44.1 kHz, others are 24-bit/192 kHz, etc. etc. (Whether "high-res" has any benefits is another story, I don't ...

Most gamers, and a lot of streamers, rely on their headsets to communicate with their team members or chat while playing ...

I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

The 12-bit-resolution Acqiris model DP310 PCI digitizer board ($9490) combines 300-MHz –3-dB bandwidth, a sampling rate of 400M samples/sec (plus 5% over range to 420M samples/sec), 78-dB SFDR ...

Intel released the Arc A750 roughly three years ago as part of its first generation "Alchemist" lineup of discrete GPUs. It launched with 8GB of GDDR6 memory saturated across a 256-bit bus. While the ...