It's easy to trash motherboard audio — we've been doing it for decades. While it's true that on-board audio on motherboards used to be terrible, things have come a long way in the last 10 years.

So I've bought my father a pair of Air Pods Max for xmas; he's very into classical music... I've ripped all his CDs to his iPad and he's got various subscriptions to music and audio books, and the ...

MPEG-4 audio does not require a single or small set of highly efficient compression schemes but rather a complex toolbox to perform a wide range of operations from low-bit-rate speech coding to ...