Monsieur Fourier did an amazing thing when he figured out how to move between time and frequency domains. Scopes are inherently time-domain instruments, so let's see how much our eyes can tell us ...

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 ...

Speaking of Zeroes and Ones... Among audiophiles, the analog vs. digital debate rages without end. I, like a lot of other musicians and music fans, have my own preferences--I own many more LPs than ...

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

The author is senior development engineer for Wheatstone Corp. There’s nothing like a little audio performance testing to cap off a hectic week at the station, especially if you don’t have to haul out ...

Several readers report poor sound quality from the MacBook Pro's speakers. In particular, some readers are reporting that the right speaker outputs distorted or otherwise poor quality audio while the ...

This image of an Aggressors F-16 provides an opportunity to see heat distortion “at work” and compare it to shock wave distortion. Here’s another stunner. The image in this post was taken on Dec. 20, ...

(Top) Conceptual illustration demonstrating the realization of a wide field-of-hearing metalens via symmetry conversion of a spherically symmetric Lunberg lens (Middle) Schematic diagram and prototype ...

The visible distortion around the belly of the aircraft (left side of the photo) is caused by the shock waves that distort light as if it was entering a new medium. As we already explained in the past ...