Audio Design Line has a handy new link for its top ten articles of 2007. Lots of good stuff here including the loudspeakers & cables series referrenced a couple months ago, class D amplifier design, and audio data compression (you know, that MP3 stuff and the like).
Fun reading for a frigid Friday (or Thursday).
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Kate's a big consumer of audio books, but I've never been able to listen to them. About five minutes in, I doze right off, every time.
Audio is where I spend much of my time, both professionally and as a hobby. In fact, quite a few years ago I used to design public address systems and components (most notably loudspeaker systems and subwoofers).
Regular readers of the refuge know that I've got a "thing" for audio and music, and that I've had some harsh comments regarding the poor quality audio that so many people tolerate these days in the name of convenience. But what of the other extreme? Who are the audiophile extremists?
On the audio front, National Semiconductor, long a player in analog semiconductors, has announced a couple new op amp families producing a total harmonic distortion plus noise spec of 0.00003%.