While many people are happy with the quality of MP3s, sound engineers, musicians, and hi-fi enthusiasts have long demanded higher-definition audio. Over the years, we’ve seen tremendous improvements ...

Amazon Music today became the first of the three major streaming services to offer high-definition sound with the launch of Amazon Music HD. According to the announcement, the service offers ...

Everybody is familiar with high-definition video these days, which packs more visual information (more pixels) into the shows you see on TV and on Blu-ray discs. But you may not know much about ...

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 ...

The advent of next-generation high-definition DVD players, based on the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, presents significant design complexities for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). While ...

If you use YouTube to discover and listen to music, you may no longer be bogged down by the insufficient audio quality. YouTube is preparing for updated audio settings which will open up options for ...

One thing we did not expect to see on this Spring Monday morning was a high-quality audio duel between two of the world’s biggest music streaming services. At around 9 a.m. ET, Apple announced that ...

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 ...

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