People are always asking me for help with audio. It is hard to give people a lesson in which they can grasp even the basics. Thomas over at ArsTechnica has written up a great article on the subject of uncompressed digital audio.
Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied,
transmitted,
and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and
human-made audio programming than at any other time in our history.
Reaching
this point has required a tremendous amount of innovation and
standardization for formats and communication between audio systems. In
this series of articles, titled The AudioFile, Ars takes a look behind
the scenes
of common digital audio files.
The AudioFile: basics of uncompressed digital audio.