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 ...

Intersil's ISL54400 has audio switches that provide a very-low-distortion path suitable for MP3 playback into stereo headphone loads, and can handle negative signal swings up to 20 mW power levels ...

The TS5USBA224 is a double-pole, double throw (DPDT) multiplexer that includes a low-distortion audio switch and a USB 2.0 High-Speed (480Mbps) switch in the same package. This configuration allows ...

Intersil introduced the ISL54406 audio switch. It eliminates unwanted clicks and pops caused by powering up and down, muting on and off, and switching between audio sources. The combination of audio ...

A young chief engineer who knew a lot more about computers than transmitters and analog audio systems recently asked me for help in tracking down on-air distortion that had affected his mom-and-pop ...

Promising to virtually eliminate distortion in high-end audio, multimedia, and broadcast applications, the CAR resistors employ a protective coating, rather than molding or encapsulation. Enlisting ...

It’s been a while since the last installment in our Know Audio series, in which we investigated distortion as it applies to Hi-Fi audio. Now it’s time to return with part two of our look at distortion ...