Updated: At Sony's Hi-MD annoucement they showed a chart depicting the relative standing of their ATRAC codecs. The diagonal lines indicate the audio quality equivalence of today's ATRAC3plus at 64kbps with the first version of ATRAC (ca. 1992) at 292kbps: The first generation ATRAC was a far cry from the quality of Type-R DSP for ATRAC introduced in 1998, and in fact it was probably similar in quality to MP3 at 128kbps.

With HDTV the audio quality is generally better than conventional television programming and sound can be delivered in "digital-quality" 5-channel digital audio. Overall quality will depend on the audio equipment and set-up in your home.

The Companion system is a fully digital wireless system that achieves near wire-line sound quality. Users are often surprised to discover that its sound quality is indistinguishable from that of a conventional desk phone.

LP2 mode is reportedly quite close to standard ATRAC. LP4 mode has noticeable artifacts, but is still suitable for portable applications. Brian Youn has assembled some user comments on MDLP mode's quality. There are also comments in the Sony MZ-R900 equipment browser entry.

Yes. The hard disks of the Kaleidescape Server store exact (lossless) copies of the digital data imported from your CDs. The Kaleidescape Movie Player, Movie Player 2 or Music Player will convert these bit streams into digital and analog audio outputs just as if you were playing the CD in a reference-quality CD player.

NetLibrary offers two audio qualities: CD quality and radio quality. CD quality offers high-fidelity playback for patrons with high-speed Internet access. Most portable listening devices do not support the playback of files lower than 32 kbps, so you must download the CD quality file if you are going to transfer and listen to the Audiobook on a portable listening device. Radio quality provides faster download speed and is ideal for patrons with dial-up connections.

The frequency response when ADPCM is used will be very close to telephone voice grade (telephone voice grade is defined as 3db points at 300-3400Hz, 1000Hz 0db reference).

For video, Cinematize 2 alows you to choose whether to keep the full original quality or to reduce the quality to save disk space. You can save full quality uncompressed video, or choose among any of the video compression codecs supported by QuickTime. For audio, Cinematize 2 decodes audio to AIFF or WAV but preserves the full original quality. No, you don't need the actual DVD disc. Cinematize will work fine with DVD data stored on your hard drive.

Kaleidescape Movie Players and Music Players provide reference-quality audio and video output that is comparable to the very best CD and DVD players that are available today.

Yes. For video tracks, you may choose to decode the video into any of the codecs supported by QuickTime. Using the decoding options provided by Cinematize, you can control the trade-off between file size and video quality. You can also extract the video data in full original quality. For audio tracks, Cinematize will always preserve the full original quality. You may choose to decode to AIFF/WAV/MOV or to save the audio undecoded.

No. The Kaleidescape System imports an exact digital copy of the DVD or CD onto the Server, without removing any copy protection. No additional compression is applied; therefore no quality is lost. The same exact bits (including copy protection) are streamed via Ethernet to a Player. Kaleidescape's Players use state-of-the-art DVD and CD playback hardware and software to provide reference-quality video and audio playback.

Although we can send you an audio and video signal over the Internet, the Internet does not have the capacity to send you enough of the video and audio signal to give it television or CD quality. This is especially true if you are using a modem and dialing into and Internet Service Provider. If you are with a great Internet Service Provider, you have never had to wait for anything to download from the Internet.

Keep your microphone about 3-5 inches away from your mouth and make use of good quality microphones and headsets. The quality of head set cannot be disregarded for a good and stable voice communication. So, do ensure that you have a good quality head set.

Under the vid-aud tab, increasing the sampling rate and especially the bitrate will increase the quality of the audio in your SWF. It will also increase the SWF file size. Using mono instead of stereo, especially at lower bitrates, may also improve quality.

The quality of the recordings is really based on your original material. Usually the DVD's image will be the same as the original but we cannot garuntee what quality you will get. The longer the film footage then the quality will reduce slightly.

TerminatorX operates at an arbitrary sampling rate with 16Bit samples and 2 channels (aka stereo). Samples will be converted to mono on loading.

Your vows will sound just as you spoke them. We use a wireless mic on the groom to pick up every word.

Before Java 1.3, the audio support in Java was mainly for applets and was in officially undocumented classes such as sun.audio. In Java 1.1, the only support was for 8kHz u-Law Mono audio. So to play audio there, we have to "down sample" the content which results in loss of quality. We recommend that you use Java 1.3 or above; these versions use JavaSound, which provides much improved audio quality.

Place the mouse pointer in hdxRadio logo located in the upper-right corner of the screen, click the left mouse button. Once you have got the new password, click again inside hdxRadio logo, in the upper right corner of the screen. There is another way to enter the user code to any terminal from the Server Monitor.

Audio stored in the System 3000D is digitized at 32,000 samples per second into 16 bit, uncompressed, linear pulse-code modulation data. The effective audio bandwidth is 15 kHz. This yields an exceptionally high quality of clear audio.

Absolutely! Back in the day, if a bassist decided to get friggin' uppity, he was replaced by the keyboardist's left hand. If a string section gets uppity, and wants to get paid, there's some pretty SMOKIN' sample libraries that sing the song royalty free, baby! If a drummer can't find his own ass with both hands, there's a Roland thingy that will send him back to the drive-up window at KFC, where he belongs. If a singer can't carry a tune in a bucket, autotune will step in and save the CMA's.

In the Clipstream™ Live application itself you can change the video input quality you are receiving from your camera by going to the Settings menu and choosing Audio Capture Device Properties.

There are a number of settings in VTALL that allow you to optimize the audio settings for your particular hardware, configuration, and network connectivity: In the Tools menu there is a "Configuration Wizard" item. In the VTALL configuration wizard there is a panel labeled "Fine Tune Your Audio Settings." This option changes the size of the audio jitter buffer and can solve some problems caused by slower processors or audio hardware. Select Tools / Options and select the "Codecs" tab.

The audio previews on the site are MP3 at 128 KB/s, 44.1 KHz, last for about 60 - 90 seconds and are about 1MB in size. They will stream down to your computer and require Flash Player to play.

The Remote Speakers Output Plug-In does need to resample audio input if it does not match the sample rate or size of the AirPort Express. This can cause a minor degradation in audio quality. However, I chose a sample rate converter that focuses on quality over performance so the impact to the result should be very slight. No resampling of the input needs to be done if it matches the native sample rate and size of the AirPort Express.