If you have a 4K UHD TV, you'll never see higher quality picture, and if you have a pile of old DVDs, you'll never see them look better, either.

Key Takeaways MP3 players (DAPs) remain essential for audiophiles seeking high-quality, distraction-free listening.2025 ...

We didn't care about sampling rates or DSD files; we just wanted to listen ... enduring analogue format isn't abating. The demand for hi-res and higher-quality streaming from Tidal, Qobuz, Apple Music ...

Welcome to another instalment of our monthly Ask the Reader column, where we ask our readers for their input on a key topic of discussion. In this month's discussion, we want to know how you listen to ...

Even internet music streaming has limits ... to explain why this is so exciting to audio nerds (like me). DSD is an older hi-res format that tries to be as efficient as possible in storing ...

you probably want to buy that music in the highest-quality format possible. For many audiophiles, that means DSD and DXD, two formats that represent the pinnacle of hi-res digital audio ...

Any time I try to explain the merits of Qobuz to a friend who's not quite so obsessed with music quality as ... but in a nutshell, DSD and DXD are high-resolution audio formats that are distinctly ...

Just to continue with the two options above for a second, the A&K SR25 MKII easily handles a huge array of high-resolution music formats ... plus native playback of DSD up to DSD128 – ie.

The resulting audio from this process, Direct Stream Digital (DSD), is the standard ... this isn't just an Apple or Apple Music issue—all Bluetooth playback of high-res media streaming platforms ...