Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on Google and Yahoo. He previously worked for PandoDaily and Fortune Magazine, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, on ...

In early 2019, Google introduced a powerful new accessibility tool for Android devices with Sound Amplifier. Now, over a year later, Google is finally giving Android users the ability to use Sound ...

Modern smartphones have to keep up with our increasingly demanding audio needs. Whether it’s wireless audio playback, traditional wired headphones, or the increasing consumption of audio over phone ...

Android 10 has a number of handy accessibility tricks ready to serve those with various impairments. For users who are hard of hearing, there is one particular trick that could be a game changer–the ...

This is a topic that is unlikely to be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction anytime soon. And to whatever extent there are real differences in the sound of different amplifiers, it’s very possible that ...

Class D switching amplifiers bring undeniable benefits to audio applications in circuit efficiency, size, and cost improvements. But meeting the needs of today's consumer electronics—such as ...

Update, July 24, 2019 (12:00PM EST): Originally announced during Google I/O 2018, Google’s Sound Amplifier app is now available for Android devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above. As the ...

Last year I wrote about how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has failed consumer audio in its Amplifier Rule to combat the unrealistic power claims made by many hi-fi amplifier manufacturers ...

Class D amplifiers are fundamentally different from analog amplifiers, not only in their circuitry, but more importantly in the way they operate. Yet, engineers continue to test Class D amplifiers ...