Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Once upon a time, aspiring bands, musicians and singers had ...

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The ¼” phone jack was invented more than 100 years ago to connect people using a new invention called the “telephone.” Today, the modern variant – the 3.5mm phone jack – is widely used. As modern ...

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Intel says there are good reasons to say goodbye to the 3.5mm audio jack and bring headphones, earbuds and microphones into the digital era. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A Chinese consortium has gotten fed up with HDMI and is proposing GPMI (General Purpose Media Interface) as an alternative. It seems that the plan is a base number of lanes over the USB Type-C as ...

Our top pick for best audio interface for Mac is Universal Audio's Apollo Twin X Quad. Photo: Universal Audio An audio interface serves as a bridge between your Mac and external audio sources like ...

The new Shure MV7i has a combo XLR/TRS input for a second mic or instrument. There's no need for a separate audio interface to combine the two signals. Is Shure’s MV7i the world’s first microphone ...

Aims to replace 3.5mm audio jack in smartphones and tablets Last month at Intel’s 2016 Developer Forum in Shenzhen, China, the chip giant proposed a broad market transition to remove all 3.5mm audio ...

The USB audio interface is a fairly standardized device — for those who might not know, that’s the hardware you use to take a microphone or instrument that uses an XLR or 1/4″ output and get that into ...

This device functions as a bridge between your audio sources and computer or recording setup. The interface takes analog sound signals from microphones and instruments, then translates them into ...