You see them everywhere. Apple's iPod is now synonymous in people's minds with portable music. Twenty years ago, it was the Walkman that was state-of-the-art for portability. Twenty years before that ...

The fictional band Spinal Tap could make their instruments louder with the help of amplifiers that went up to 11. Lesser musicians must find other ways to pump up the volume. One well-established ...

We have constantly heard from people that listening to music at extremely high volumes or for long periods can damage your ears. A few months ago, a group of scientists decided to test this notion in ...

Sam is a journalist based in Vancouver, BC. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in English literature with a minor in Creative Writing, cutting her teeth through her ...

There was an interesting article in the New York Times over the weekend. Called “From a High-Tech System, Low-Fi Music,” its focus was on compressed music files that are lossy by virtue of the fact ...

Harman has announced proprietary software which automatically analyses and improves the audio quality of all types of compressed, digitised music sources at the CES show in Las Vegas. The technology, ...

I’ve received thousands of e-mails in the past week on the subject of Apple’s new iTunes Music Store. Many wrote to say they couldn’t hear the sound quality differences I spoke about, others said I ...