John Kean explains how the xHE-AAC codec utilizes metadata to shift dynamic range control from content producers to listeners ...

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” ...

To provide the increased bandwidth and data-transmission rates necessary for wireless data, voice, music, and video applications, engineers must contend with higher-order modulation schemes that place ...

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 ...

Join the community discussion that is already taking place about this articleUnderstanding Your Signal Analyzer’s “Dynamic Range” Despite having just used the term “dynamic range” in the title myself ...

An ideal amplifier has very low noise, operates over a broad frequency range, and has large dynamic range. Unfortunately, it is difficult to obtain all of these characteristics simultaneously. For ...

For gigasample-per-second (GSPS) ADCs, one of the most important ac performance specifications is SFDR. It simply defines the capability of the ADC, and the system, to decipher a carrier signal from ...