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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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. ...

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.

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 ...

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… ...

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993 ...

"Universal Record," England's latest project, revives that ritual for the modern age. It's a vibrating plastic disc that lets you play music from any digital source, via Bluetooth, on any record ...

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 ...