The iPod marked a huge leap forward for the music industry -- and a step backward, too. To make music conveniently portable, digital music players rely on compressed songs, which strip out parts of ...

Sonos just announced that Qobuz will be the first streaming music provider to deliver tunes in 24-bit resolution to the platform. The high-resolution Qobuz integration will be available in the Sonos ...

If you thought your CD collection sounded great and your MP3s from iTunes sounded “good enough,” you might have missed a memo: Digital music has improved a lot in the days since you bought that first ...

The world's biggest tech companies are preparing to introduce high-resolution audio files that will increase the price of both digital music and the new devices designed to play those files. Apple, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Selling new versions of the same thing is a great business. Particularly when the newest iteration brings a ...

The Audiophiliac spends some quality time with FiiO's little X3, an awesome 192kHz/24-bit music player/headphone amplifier; it also sounds sweet with MP3s. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Singer-songwriter Neil Young is on a crusade to save recorded music with a new digital audio player called Pono aimed at offering so-called high-resolution digital audio. PonoMusic, the company behind ...

When we dared to broach the idea that MP3s need to be retired, a lot of you respectfully disagreed, arguing that the convenience, affordability, and sound quality of the lossy format makes it the best ...

Music makes the perfect holiday gift and while many now rely on streaming services to get their tunes, there's a diehard group of listeners who still rely on discs. Compact discs may be fading, but ...

This week, Sony unleashed a battery of expensive audio gear that claims to support “high-resolution audio” which, like “ultra high-definition” in the video world, sounds pretty snazzy. But what does ...

When will iTunes get around to selling high-resolution music files? There's nothing stopping Apple, but who would pay a premium for better-sounding music? Steve Guttenberg Former contributor Ex-movie ...

November 2, 2021; WASHINGTON, D.C – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Chris Coons (D-DE), along with U.S. Representatives Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and Don Young (R-AK), introduced a ...