It's not as simple as just firing up Spotify Lossless making your music magically better.

There's good news on that front, if not for the hardware and bandwidth you need.

We test the streaming files to establish whether Spotify’s long-awaited lossless delivery actually serves the bit-perfect ...

Lossless-quality streaming is now available on Apple Music, shortly after it flipped the switch on Dolby Atmos spatial audio. As of now, you'll be able to stream supported tracks in both standard ...

Apple Music offers lossless audio, which is the highest quality music you can get from streaming apps. Lossless audio takes more space and internet bandwidth to ...

A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire ...

A day after the Apple Music Lossless Audio announcement, there’s still a great deal of confusion. A few things have become clear in the meantime, but other elements remain murky. Apple spent most of ...

Never in the history of headphones — and particularly in the history of the wireless variety — has someone said: “You know what? I’d like the ones with the worse audio quality.” Just doesn’t happen.

A new feature of Snapdragon Sound Technology, aptX Lossless is designed to deliver CD quality 16-bit 44.1kHz lossless audio quality over Bluetooth. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...

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