The following was excerpted from “Maintaining Audio Quality in the Broadcast and Netcast Facility.” In this segment, the authors deal with the many-faceted and often misunderstood subject of quality ...

In Signal Chain Basics #34, we covered some of today's commonly used digital audio interfaces, from chip-to-chip I 2 S™ (Inter IC Sound) to system-to-system interfaces such as S/PDIF and AES/EBU.

In Part 1 of this article, we discussed some of the basic system considerations associated with using audio data converters. We focused on the control method and the basic audio performance metrics ...