Information about the world of high quality audio
Apple Music issued a press release on May 17, 2021 announcing that the “next generation of sound” would arrive for subscribers in June — without any additional cost. Apple Music subscribers can listen to any track, anywhere, in CD fidelity for only $9.95 month. What Apple Music defines as the “next generation” of sound includes support for Spatial Audio in the form of Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio.
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A number of readers have forwarded links to the video below. In fact, I was in the middle of viewing it when I received a couple of emails. It was produced by a UK-based commentator under the name GoldenSound and it is absolutely spot on in its analysis and conclusion regarding the MQA format. I highly recommend you find 38″ and watch this video.
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In October of 2019, I wrote an article on probably the single most important link in the long chain of production steps required to bring a classic analog master tape into our digital music world. The importance of maximizing the fidelity of the tape playback using a state-of-the-art reproducer and associated electronics cannot be overstated.
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The news this week included the announcement by Spotify is upgrading the fidelity of their music streams to “CD-quality.” I watched a video by John Darko, read the press release about Spotify Hi-Fi and another article on CEPro by Robert Archer, and was so thoroughly disgusted at the inaccuracies included in a piece titled “High-resolution audio: everything you need to know” written by Verity Burns and Becky Roberts on WhatHiFi that I had to post a lengthy comment pointing out a few of the issues…
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The world has changed. Priorities have been reordered and difficult decisions are being made. It’s a time to be concerned
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I apologize for failing to issue a post in over a month. Since the first of the year, life has
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An old idiom states, “a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”. As audiophiles, we are constantly striving
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It’s another rainy day in Southern California — time to follow up on the blog I started the other day.
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The high-resolution challenge page had been pinged almost 1500 times and over 400 people have contacted me about downloading the
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During the recent T.H.E. Show I told several attendees that I intended to write a post comparing fidelity vs. sound.
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