A 1.5 V low-power stereo audio codec in 0.13 mu m CMOS is described. The microphone path includes a programmable gain stage with an enhanced transconductance cell followed by a continuous-time Sigma Delta ADC with capacitive feed-forward and capacitive direct feedback. The speaker path employs a 1 mA Class-AB speaker amplifier with an improved quiescent current control circuit that delivers 30 mW to a 32 Omega speaker. The audio input and output paths achieve 92 and 98 dB dynamic range, respectively, with 6.5 mA total quiescent current.