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 ...

WEBVTT DEIRDRE: YOU HAVE HEARD OF HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO, BUT IS THE SOUND QUALITY FROM YOUR DOWNLOADS UP TO STANDARD? HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO HAS TAKEN OVER TV, PHONES, AND TABLETS THAT SOUND QUALITY IS ...

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 ...

Agoura Hills, CA - DTS, Inc. today unveils a three-tiered system of audio solutions for the next generation HD DVD and Blu-ray Dics formats. The naming system is a scalable architecture that can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...