After years of niche positioning in the music world, high-resolution audio (or 'hi-res audio') has finally hit the mainstream thanks to a huge raft of support from popular streaming services such as ...

Apple Music providing its lossless and Spatial Audio upgrade at no extra charge would normally put the ranks of competing lossless music streamers at a serious competitive disadvantage. But this is ...

Hi-fi music streaming is officially mainstream. Tech giant Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is launching Amazon Music HD, a new tier of its existing music-streaming service that delivers lossless ...

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Now that Spotify has joined the fray, it's fair to say that hi-res music streaming is well and truly mainstream. And a good thing too – a monthly fee is more than worth it if it means higher-quality ...

Update 5/17: Apple has announced high-res lossless audio for Apple Music, launching in June. This article has been updated to reflect the news. While a new AirPods design is welcome, this high-end ...

Audio has come a long way on smartphones. Regular streaming services have quality streaming that’s perfectly fine for Bluetooth headphones. Modern connectivity like 5G and Wi-Fi 6 ensures buffering is ...

Looks like those rumors that Amazon was planning a hi-res music tier for its Amazon Music service were true: Today the company has announced Amazon Music HD, an upgraded tier for Amazon Music ...

This small device from iFi Audio can transmit and receive Hi-Res audio over Bluetooth. It's an easy way to add high-quality ...

Most of us listening to music on a smartphone will have a music collection encoded as AAC Lossless files. A few people still hang on to the older MP3 format but many people now also choose to listen ...

We’ve come a long way since the earliest days of home audio, and a number of major leaps have been made: the transition from mono to stereo in the 1960s; moving from vacuum tubes to solid-state ...

Fiio’s Snowsky Disc is a tiny portable hi-fi player that works kind of like an iPod of old. It doesn’t support any non-music apps and thus is designed to deliver a distraction-free listening ...