Before we can understand digital audio, we must first have a very general understanding of how sound occurs naturally. Sound is actually a mechanical wave that is propagating through the air (typically, but it can travel through other mediums as well). A basic visual illustration of sound is the sine wave. A sine wave a [...]
Here are types of audio cables for your home theater system. And comments about the pros and cons of each are discusses for our review. Coax Digital Audio (S/PDIF) – This offers digital connection with copper cables, most generally Coax. Cables are long. And Dolby Digital 5.1, 7.1, DTS etc. is supported. However, the copper [...]
In the world of digital audio, there are two types of cable to choose from; optical cables which use light to transmit signal and digital coaxial cable. These audio cables will enable your home theater system to transmit digital data between components. This will provide you with superior sound quality over typical RCA audio cables. [...]
Audio CDs are becoming obsolete. In the modern world the mp3 is the easiest, most convenient musical format. It’s impossible to walk down the road today without seeing someone listening to their iPod. It’s not difficult to understand why: thousands of mp3s can be stored in a minuscule amount of space and you can listen [...]
Take it from me. I’ve been on long family road trips. We do some stretches up 20 hours at a time. Yes, I know, 20 hours cramped in a mini-van does not sound like fun. But we get through it without problems. You might ask, how??? One easy solution! We have a DVD mobile system [...]