Innovations in digital audio technology are emerging that could make "high-resolution audio" available to the masses -- and they aren't coming from Apple, Sony, Dolby, or any of the other usual ...

Just curious to see what everyone else is doing, including the encoder and codec you use. I'll start: AAC 320k VBR encoded with iTunes on Windows 10. FLAC CD images for archive and anything that'll ...

It seems like every year around this time we have some exciting news about MQA. In 2015, MQA wowed us at CES as one of the best products we saw. At last year’s CES, MQA announced several deals that ...

Meridian wowed us at CES 2015 with its MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) audio demos. This year, MQA is taking a big step towards getting its high-quality audio technology into people’s hands, ...

It’s been four years now since Tidal began offering MQA-encoded music files to its subscribers. To those with the right combination of playback software and/or hardware, these files promise to deliver ...

The ability to search within musical scores that have been encoded for instances of a specific musical figure or melody is a significantly more complex process than searching through word-processing ...

Fred Benenson spent a recent drizzly Saturday afternoon with friends in Manhattan wearing yellow hazmat suits. They were in front of the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue, distributing flyers and ...

I was still in grade school when Sony introduced the Walkman. The silver-colored cassette player was revolutionary: Small enough to clip to a belt and powered by a set of AA batteries, it totally ...

Primephonic, one of the new entrants, commissioned a market survey about user satisfaction with streaming music services; the results, released last month, showed that 60% of respondents expressed ...

FLAC for archival and to use as a lossless transcoding source. Ogg Vorbis for listening, currently using q9 quality (~320 kbps). q9 is overkill, but the files are still small enough that it's not an ...