Originally developed for Super Audio CD, DSD 2.8MHz is growing in popularity with audiophiles. Also known as DSD 64, the standard uses a 1-bit/64 times over-sampling process able to achieve 120dB ...

If your audio fidelity experience has only been in the form of CDs, MP3s, or lower-quality streaming services (such as Spotify and YouTube Music), you may be missing out on some audio bliss. There ...

Compact disc digital audio technology reproduces sound with remarkable accuracy, ... The numbers are “read” by a laser beam in the CD player and translated back to music.

Simon Cohen / Digital Trends We’ve been hearing a lot about lossless audio lately. Apple Music says it has it. So does Amazon Music. Tidal and Qobuz have it too, but Spotify doesn’t. (Yet. Or ...

The PM-1 can store up to six hours of digital audio on a disk about half the size of a standard CD. The iPaq Personal CD Player PCD-1 can hold about 20 hours of digital audio and uses standard 4. ...

The digital music revolution officially hit 30 years ago, on Oct. 1, 1982. While you may be surprised to learn that the heralds of the coming age were, in fact, the Bee Gees, it probably comes as ...

The music industry has largely turned its back on digital rights management, but the TV and movie industries continue to pursue it unabashedly. ... The CD Digital Audio is the oldest CD standard and ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a ...

Most audio professionals refer to hi-fi as audio that’s the same quality as a CD or a vinyl record. The term “lossless” refers to a digital audio file that has the sample rate as a CD (16-bit/44.1 kHz ...

DSD, or Direct Stream Digital, is an alternative to PCM and was originally conceived for Super Audio CD (SACDs) – a format championed by Sony and Philips in the late 1990s and into the noughties. It’s ...

In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Luk… ...

One of the early pioneers of HD downloads, US-based HDtracks, is now available in the UK. The content selection is broad, thanks to major label support from Sony Music Entertainment, Warner and ...