Your computer's multimedia experience loses a dimension when distortion overtakes your sound and makes audio content unbearable to listen to. When noise affects all of your computer's audio output, ...

Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Some iPods exhibit a "static" noise -- audible through headphones -- when the iPod is accessing its hard drive. (In general, the better the headphones, the more apparent the static. The issue is ...

Control theory is a vital and standard part of engineering studies: the effectiveness of negative feedback to keep jet-fighters airborne, ferries afloat and nuclear power plants a-non-exploding has ...