Do audio bit rates matter? With iTunes enhanced-bitrate music coming in a month, we were hoping for a vast improvement. But can anyone tell the difference between a music track encoded at 320kbit/sec, ...

Spotify has quietly added a feature that many desktop listeners have been requesting for years. The company’s new Exclusive ...

Broadband wired and wireless internet connections are getting faster all the time. But in many parts of the world high-speed internet access is unavailable and/or unreliable. So researchers continue ...

When the ATSC rules were first published in 1995, the maximum data rate for a so-called Complete Main (CM) program that was Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoded was set at 384 kbps by standard A/53. The ...

With the introduction of Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless technology, Bluetooth headphone customers will finally join their wired audiophile brethren with the option to listen to lossless quality audio. The ...

The streaming wars continue to heat up. As Wayde discussed in his recent article: AT&T, Comcast and Disney Prepare to Destroy Netflix, Netflix has never faced as much competition as it will over the ...

The future of audio is digital and the quality produced by digital audio is of great importance to broadcasters, producers, live venues and the listening audience. Digital audio can be prone to ...

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer’s ...

Bought a Hi-Fi system recently, and have been playing 192kb/s LAME MP3s on it. I personally am unable to tell the difference between these and the source CD tracks (limited by my hearing and/or my ...