Analog audio uses physical representations of sound, while digital audio is represented by numbers. Digital audio is sampled rapidly, allowing it to be perceived as continuous sound. In practice, ...
the digital optical cable was invented so consumers could transmit digital audio signals from CD and Laserdisc players to an AV receiver or stereo system. Thanks to the optical cable and its ...
If you’ve owned a CD player or other piece of consumer digital audio gear manufactured since the 1980s, the chances are it has a TOSLINK port on the back. This is a fairly simple interface ...
Our curated list below includes fully integrated CD players, which have a built-in digital-to-analogue converter (DAC), and CD transports, which can only read the data on the disc and require an ...
Here’s how it works. If you stream music wirelessly and want the best sound quality possible from your high-resolution digital library, then a dedicated network audio player (or music streamer) is a ...