The Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) work on standards for digitizing analogue audio, as used to interconnect both professional and domestic equipment. Work was started in the mid 1980s. This culminated in the publishing of the AES3 standard (frequently also known as AES/EBU) for professional use as well as, using different physical connections as specified in IEC 60958, within the domestic "Hi-Fi" environment. This work has provided the most commonly used method for digitally interconnecting audio equipment worldwide using physically separate cables for each stereo audio connection.
