Dave Moulton

This column will be devoted to the basics of surround sound for video, as part of my series for non-audio folks.

This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us.

I'm going to devote a couple of columns to audio basics for video folks.

While I expected HD to be better, I didn't expect it to be quite so freakin' much better, if you know what I mean.

Our Story To Date. Alert readers may recall my recent concern with the variance in audio levels as experienced by us home viewers.

This column will be devoted to the basics of time-domain signalprocessing effects, most notably reverb.

Two months ago we ranted about bad audio, goaded on by reader Bro Duke, who wants the FCC to DO SOMETHING about it! Well, we got a fair amount of mail, with some interesting horror stories.

I know, I know! I promised you that I was done with resolution issues. But as I wrapped up my rant, a couple of industry pros really got on my case about some of the things I was saying.

Alert readers will recall that last month I began a discussion of how we try to determine what it is that we humans can really hear.

Alert readers will recall that I've been hinting about some new loudspeakers that I've been involved with, for quite some time now. Well, they're out and they are definitely worth talking about!

I recently received a letter from Tom Lento, a broadcast technology marketing consultant, commenting on my March 5 column about the variance of audio levels in TV programming

This column will be devoted to the basics of stereo for video, as part of my series on "the basics."