If you follow audiophile reviewers, you’ll know that their stock-in trade is a very fancy way of saying absolutely nothing of quantifiable substance about the subject while sounding knowledgeable ...

An audio distortion analyzer is a specialist piece of analogue test equipment that usually costs a lot of money and can be hard to track down on the second hand market. Finding one is a moment of luck ...

Correcting distortion in audio amplifiers is relatively easy – apply negative feedback (notwithstanding the objections from a sizeable number of audiophiles who hate negative feedback, but we are not ...

A critical measure for all audio components is distortion, typically specified as total harmonic distortion (THD) or total harmonic distortion + noise (THD+N). THD is defined as: ... THD+N is the rms ...

I had five minutes in the Fame Lab final to give a simple scientific explanation of one phenomenon. I wanted to do something you wouldn't normally have up there. So I chose the sound of rock guitar.

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Distortion comes in a huge range of slightly different forms, from subtle analogue warmth to ...

Testing high-resolution data converters with commercially available test equipment always has presented a significant challenge. Until recently, manufacturers of such converters had to extend their ...

I can remember a colleague working for weeks on a sinewave generator board for a piece of test equipment. He came up with a Wein bridge oscillator with several refinements that had wonderfully low ...