This week, Sony unleashed a battery of expensive audio gear that claims to support “high-resolution audio” which, like “ultra high-definition” in the video world, sounds pretty snazzy. But what does ...

Over the years, we’ve seen tremendous improvements to the process of capturing sound in digital form and then playing it back for human ears. However, lossy compression, which cuts file sizes and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If Ultra HD 4K is to be the major TV and home cinema innovation of 2014, then high-resolution ...

We’ve come a long way since the earliest days of home audio, and a number of major leaps have been made: the transition from mono to stereo in the 1960s; moving from vacuum tubes to solid-state ...

You could be forgiven for believing we’re entering an age where streaming music services are taking over. Today, hyper-compressed online music distribution services like Spotify, Pandora and Rdio are ...

December 12, 2008 High definition TV’s and displays offer obvious visual benefits over conventional standard definition sets, but what about the audio side of things? Along with the Blu-Ray and HD DVD ...

DesignWare ARC Sound DRA Decoder Supports the Chinese National High-Definition Audio Standard and Enables an Enhanced, High-Quality Audio Experience MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 11, 2011-- Synopsys, Inc ...

Today, high-quality music is no longer bound to physical media. HDtracks pioneered high-resolution audio downloads and offers music titles at CD quality and greater. In addition, music played from the ...

If Ultra HD 4K is to be the major TV and home cinema innovation of 2014, then high-resolution audio is looking as if it will be the hi-fi equivalent. But there has been some debate over its definition ...

Following are the four "Master Quality" (MQ) categories of high-resolution audio, which were formalized by the major record labels in 2014. See high-resolution audio, PCM, analog, CD and DSD. Category ...