Transmitting High-Quality Audio
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By Dick Tan  BASED on its successful DAC-1 two-channel 24-bit/192-kilohertz audio digial-to-analogue connector, Benchmark Media Systems has come up with the DAC-1 USB, which offers new benchmarks such as Advanced USB Audio, Ultrablock and HPA2.
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The MP3 players get a splash of color -- and better earbuds. In Listening Post.
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from LPs to compact discs and from VHS to DVD,&quot; says Jeff Joseph of the Consumer Electronics Association. &quot;High definition
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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Companies plan tools for improving high-end audio for PCs with Intel inside.
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This year, high-def audio. Next year, the connected receiver. Before long, we will all be surrounded by sound.
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Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex. read more
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Fans of the burgeoning technology, which lets users broadcast and download audio content feeds to MP3 players, say it represents audio broadcasting's future. But podcasting still has a long way to go. By Daniel Terdiman.
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A couple of small--but serious--issues regarding the audio output of the iPhone have been percolating on the Web for the last week or so.  From Crave, CNET's gadgets blog.
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Some wireless gadgets pump music from a computer to a stereo or TV. Others take a broadband connection and make it available to any PC within range.
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The wired instrument isn't digital, but it can stream Internet radio--for a price.
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Sony makes the body a living capacitator by sending audio signals through it. From Crave, CNET's gadget blog.
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Longhorn TCP offloading, Serial ATA 3Gbps - but no post-AC97 sound
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During the construction of my 64-bit box I collected enough spare parts to build another machine, one destined for a 32-bit Linux system. Last week I finally got that machine built and running with a sparkling new version of the Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD). I've been using JAD in its alpha releases, but the new box is running the first beta version. Various improvements have been made in JAD since my earlier review, including the adoption of a 2.6.19 kernel optimized for superb realtime performance. Since I've profiled the system in an earlier blog entry I decided to briefly review some of the more unusual software included with the distribution or built with the help of its development packages. JAD contains more than 70 applications for audio and video composition and production, most of which are at their most recent release versions, so come join me in a look at some less typical sound &amp; music software running on one of the best of the new breed of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions.
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Cable operators have been fighting bandwidth limits to squeeze in more high definition content. A new system aims to assist in that fight without sacrificing quality.
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High-speed connections and software improvements are giving rise to subscription services for music, movies, sports events and talk radio to PC's.
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Scientists think they can improve your hearing with stem cells and electrodes. If you have an iPod, you should probably listen up. Randy Dotinga reports from the AAAS meeting in San Francisco.