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You've got aptX and LDAC to beam high-quality sound to the best wireless headphones, and the R3Pro II also works with AirPlay ...
High-resolution music can have a bit rate of up to 9,216kbps. That’s a substantial difference, and if the music is mastered well, and you use nice equipment, ...
Forum member Cork says: "I listen to hi-res for music that I think was well recorded, typically music recorded relatively recently. I like to own the music, so I purchase CDs for non-hi-res and ...
Several major streaming services, such as Apple Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, and Qobuz, now offer a wide selection of high-resolution audio tracks.This enables listeners to access high-quality ...
Here's how Sony plans on converting you from MP3 audio to high-resolution audio in the next few years. A lot of progress has been made already.
A growing number of musicians, composers and sound engineers aim to put the fidelity back into your digital hi-fi, and get the output -- the digital song file you listen to -- to match the effort ...
Hi-res tracks have to be lossless, but the inverse is not true: CDs are considered lossless, to offer one counterintuitive example, and a small amount of the ALAC files found on Apple Music top ...
So, given this kind of music is what I want as good as I can get for files, it looks like I need to buy online in hi-res/flac/96khz kinda format (which is totally fine, I want flac files all the ...
Before the advent of hi-res music streaming services, hi-res files would normally be stored on a computer, and you’d need to employ a third-party app such as Vox or Onkyo HF player to play them back ...
Two tiers of Amazon Music (Amazon Music Standard and Amazon Music Unlimited) both offer Hi-Res Audio tracks, including FLAC and ALAC formats. The “Unlimited” version also includes one free audiobook ...
Yup, for 95% of any kind of use, a 60-100 watt receiver would probably totally cover pretty much anybody. With a powered sub, anyway. And I've owned a seriously lousy receiver in the (distant ...