Editing AES3 (section)

{{short description|Professional digital audio interface standard}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2020}}

'''AES3''' is a [[technical standard|standard]] for the exchange of [[digital audio]] signals between [[professional audio]] devices. An AES3 signal can carry two channels of [[pulse-code modulation|pulse-code-modulated digital audio]] over several [[transmission media]] including [[balanced line]]s, [[unbalanced line]]s, and [[optical fiber]].<ref name="AES-EBU-3250-E">{{cite web|url=https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3250.pdf|title=Specification of the AES/EBU digital audio interface (The AES/EBU interface)|publisher=European Broadcast Union|year=2004|access-date=2014-01-07}}</ref>

AES3 was jointly developed by the [[Audio Engineering Society]] (AES) and the [[European Broadcasting Union]] (EBU) and so is also known as '''AES/EBU'''. The standard was first published in 1985 and was revised in 1992 and 2003. AES3 has been incorporated into the [[International Electrotechnical Commission]]'s standard '''IEC 60958''', and is available in a consumer-grade variant known as [[S/PDIF]].