Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

We may not realize it, but digital audio technology is one of our closest companions. Do you listen to music, podcasts, and watch TV or movies on your smartphone? These days, audio and video ...

An entertaining article in a 1958 issue of "Popular Mechanics" calls the evolution of stereo "the biggest thing that's come along since high-fidelity sound." The article goes on to explain how ...

When using only one earbud, you may miss parts of songs and other audio, but mono output will prevent this. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

The driver of this Great Western Railway train had no idea that he was making audio history. As most of you will know, a mono recording uses a single microphone and a single channel while a stereo one ...

I do a lot of listening in mono these days. Partly, it’s a seasonal shift I make each year: The transistor radio sounds right to me in summer. Monaural AM radio reception changes with the weather, the ...

Radio World’s “Guest Commentaries” section provides a platform for industry thought leaders and other readers to share their perspective on radio news, technological trends and more. If you’d like to ...

The pin-your-ears-back moment came on a song I’d heard thousands of times. Having read of John Lennon’s complaint about the stereo mix of “Revolution” (“They took a heavy record and turned it into a ...

We continue to receive letters to the editor about the idea of using mono instead of stereo in certain FM broadcast situations in response to original commentaries by David Bialik and Gary Keener.

This column will be devoted to the basics of stereo for video, as part of my series on "the basics." Interestingly, stereo still isn't all that well understood in the video world. For the record, it ...