What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...

Recently, a customer who had implemented a design using a high-performance, 120-dB-dynamic-range ADC/DAC pair complained that he was getting only 113-dB performance. At first glance, this issue ...

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 ...

The Oxford Dictionary defines dynamic range as “the ratio of the largest to the smallest intensity of sound that can be reliably transmitted or reproduced by a particular sound system.” That ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. In designing an input stage for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), engineers choose a particular amplifier, assign a target gain, and note the ...

Current extrinsic fiber acoustic sensors face two primary challenges. The first lies in the time-varying initial phase of the interference signal, which arises from environmental vibrations, ...