Our primer on Hi-Res Audio for those who think Spotify and the Apple iPod raised the bar for music playback. In response, Hi-Res Audio (or high resolution audio) may have been a form of pushback ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Its backers say it does for music lovers what ultra high-definition television has done for couch potatoes. It’s a digital format that packs nearly seven times the data found on CDs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. The hi-res streaming and downloading service now has Qobuz ...

(AP) It’s hard to make headlines with a portable music player these days. It’s old hat by now to carry around thousands of songs in your hip pocket, whether on an iPod or a smartphone. But there’s ...

As I write this in March of 2024, a subscription to Tidal’s HiFi tier costs $10.99 per month — the same you’d pay for Apple Music. But while Apple Music includes high-res audio, Tidal caps its streams ...

Neil Young was on to something when he showed David Letterman a PonoPlayer. It was 2012 and the legendary singer-songwriter was down on compressed, “lossy” MP3 audio. He wanted to create a platform ...

A month ago, we asked our readers how you listen to hi-res music in your hi-fi system? Do you exclusively use streaming services, or do you buy and download hi-res files? Overwhelmingly, your answers ...

"We wanted to make a high resolution, high power USB DAC that we could ALWAYS take with us. Something so small and easy to use, there would never be an excuse to not have it with you. So we took a 3.5 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As high-resolution streaming audio (higher than CD quality) slowly becomes more prevalent on subscriptions like Tidal Hi-Fi Plus and Amazon ...

Canadian audio group Lenbrook has announced today that it has acquired the assets of MQA, the British-based technology company that developed the MQA high-resolution audio encoding technique used by ...