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 ...

There is a scourge infesting your music with its awfulness, and you probably don't even know. It's called compression, and it's compacting your music into a muddled mess. What started as a useful tool ...

Dynamic range compression has nothing to do with frequency response. It's a way of lowering the contrast between soft & loud sounds so that you can watch movies without disturbing the neighbors but ...

Lately I've been watching more and more details upstairs on my plasma screen (as opposed to my front projector downstairs), but my room is near my baby's room. The problem is that the quiet scenes are ...

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...

[In our Three-Minute Tech series, we tell you everything you really need to know about a technology in three minutes or less.] The day may come when increased storage capacities and unfettered ...