Your computer's multimedia experience loses a dimension when distortion overtakes your sound and makes audio content unbearable to listen to. When noise affects all of your computer's audio output, ...

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Distorted audio can result from turning speakers up too high, causing signal clipping or mechanical damage. Providing too ...

Using a circuit architecture said to address fundamental performance tradeoffs inherent in traditional differential input stages, the AD8099 op amp claims to combine the lowest noise (0.95 nV/Ö Hz) ...

While many op amps can claim either low noise or low distortion, the AD8099 high-speed op amp promises both. It specifies a voltage noise of 0.95 nV/vHz and a distortion of -90 dB at 10 MHz. Analog ...

Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

It's hard to imagine rock music without guitar distortion: Jimi Hendrix's albums would be unthinkable. Punk rock couldn't have happened. Metallica might have wound up sounding like Barry Manilow.

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World's leading amplifier supplier ushers in new era of signal conditioning technology. Analog Devices, a global provider in high-performance semiconductors for signal processing applications, today ...