I tested KEF’s first Dolby Atmos soundbar, and it’s great for movies and a giant leap for music

The KEF XIO is a powerful TV speaker that brings refined, cinematic energy to movies and shows, and has class-leading music ...

I love these active bookshelf speakers' stacked feature set, but they lag a little in a key area

The Edifier S880DB MKII improve on their predecessors as a low-stakes desktop hi-fi setup but do they represent value?
Hackaday

Streaming Music To Cassette

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate ...
Microwaves & RF

What Should Proper High-Speed Converter Passband Flatness Look Like? (Part 1)

How to measure and characterize the analog bandwidth for a receiver’s ADC. The ins and outs of the fundamental frequency-response measurement method. How to assemble the proper test setup. With analog ...
IEEE

Digital In-Memory Compute for Machine Learning Applications With Input and Model Security

Abstract: Digital in-memory compute (IMC) architectures allow for a balance of the high accuracy and precision necessary for many machine learning applications, with high data reuse and parallelism to ...
IEEE

Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Analog-to-Digital Converters

Abstract: The energy efficiency of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) has improved steadily over the past 40 years, with the best reported ADC efficiency improving by nearly six orders of magnitude ...

Add Bluetooth To A Hi-Fi Or Stream Music To Wireless Headphones With iFi’s Zen Blue 3

This small device from iFi Audio can transmit and receive Hi-Res audio over Bluetooth. It's an easy way to add high-quality ...