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 ...

The way we listen to music over the years has changed, but how much are we sacrificing in order for convenience today? That's the subject of the new documentary short film 'The Distortion of Sound,' ...

The last two decades have seen a striking decline in the quality of sound and listening experience. Compressed music, MP3s and streaming, have diminished the quality and flattened the emotion.

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 ...