Priced at $11,500, the new Optik Phono 1.1 from Backert Labs makes its intentions clear immediately: this is unapologetically high-end, highly specialized hardware built for owners of DS Audio optical ...

The team has tested this optical mic on guitar and violin, on a speaker cone, on tuning forks, and even on a Doritos bag sitting in front of a speaker and vibrating in sympathy with the ambient sound.

Optical cable, which was the digital audio transfer method of choice for decades, is starting to die out as Toslink is replaced by HDMI. Through the '90s and 2000s, the optical cable was near ...

PS5 is also ditching the classic optical port. The PlayStation 5 will not have an optical audio out port like PS4 and PS4 Pro. Sony elected not to bring back optical, just like Microsoft decided to ...

I'm looking for a device to add 5.1 surround to my PC. The AMD APU doesn't support 5.1 over HDMI for whatever reason, only stereo, or I'd use my normal HDMI optical audio extractor as usual. I have a ...

If you have a fancy home theater system with a soundbar and surround sound speakers, then how you connect it to your TV is an important consideration. There are legacy options you may be more familiar ...

Apple appears to have removed optical audio output support from the headphone jack on its new 13-inch MacBook Pro with function keys, suggesting it is unlikely to have made the transition in the Touch ...

This week’s Retrotechtacular is a 1943 Encyclopædia Britannica film focusing on optical sound reproduction for motion pictures. Both the sound and the images are recorded on film, which is only ...

These days, most of the media we consume is digital. We still watch movies and TV shows, but they’re all packaged in digital files that cram in many millions of pixels and as many audio channels as we ...

Diving deep into Apple's specifications, AppleInsider has learned that optical audio output capability found on previous MacBook Pro models does not exist on the 13-inch MacBook Pro with function keys ...

Macintosh computers make it possible to change the audio settings on a Mac Mini through System Preferences. Chances are, the settings on your optical audio output or input are not set up properly if ...

The speed of light is a magnificent thing. Using light, data can, and often does, travel at the fastest pace allowed by physics. But sending data is not the only job involved in communication. The ...