If you begin to dip your toes into the busy, crowded and confusing world of audio file formats, you'll quickly find yourself swamped with various different types of format, codec, compression system ...

Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...

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 ...

MQA Labs has launched Qrono dsd and Qrono d2a, a set of technologies that the group claims will improve the audio output of any digital-to-analog converter (DAC). They’re the first new products ...

Sony took the wraps off its new high-resolution portable music player at CES 2015, bringing expandable memory, plus support for DSD playback and a new "superior" LDAC Bluetooth codec. When you ...

This is a great Ultra HD Blu-ray player, but most people won’t benefit from the advanced features that lift its price tag so high. Panasonic’s DMP-UB900 is the most feature-rich UHD Blu-ray player you ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Digital music comes in many different formats – almost everyone knows MP3 thanks to Napster at ...