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Spatial Spotlight: Making big sound big.

Spatial Spotlight: Making big sound big.

Spatial audio isn’t just about where a sound comes from, but how big it feels. From the sub-bass rumble behind Godzilla to the vast halls of Control, here’s how sound engineers use psychoacoustics to make sound feel immense.

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Audio Mini-Class: The Audio Cortex

Audio Mini-Class: The Audio Cortex

You know how audiophiles carry those extra things around? The boxes or dongles that they plug their headphones into before connecting to their phone, laptop, or music player? Those are called DAC/AMPs, or Digital-to-Analog Converter/Amplifiers. “But what does all that...

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Audio Mini-Class: DAC/AMPS – Are your earbuds getting enough power?

Audio Mini-Class: DAC/AMPS – Are your earbuds getting enough power?

Unlocking 40% more of the sound quality your headphones are hiding. A DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) is a device that translates digital audio data into an analog electrical signal that most headphones can play. An AMP (Amplifier) then takes that converted...

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