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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advantages of the latest audio formats are apparent for silicon, software, and technology providers; system manufacturers; and media producers. But benefits for consumers are less obvious. Couple that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the ATSC rules were first published in 1995, the maximum data rate for a so-called Complete ...

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 ...

Electronic sound reproduction dates back to Lee de Forest’s invention of the Audion—the 3-element vacuum tube commonly known as the triode—in 1905. It may be hard to believe that electronic audio ...