Hey Alaskan,

There's been many discussions of many technical subjects over the years on these forums.
Some are much like beating dead horses 15 lives over.

Aside from that, Axiom puts out a newsletter every so often and includes technical articles on, well, all of these things and has also done so for many years now.

People can (and have for some time), accessed this info at the Axiom pages dedicated to it.
You might want to have a look. Many folks on the forums are not new to these subjects.
http://www.axiomaudio.com/guides

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