Universal Music Group recently did a low key introduction of a new hi-res audio format called High Fidelity Pure Audio. The launch was kicked off at the Dolby headquarters in London on June 20th and ...

It’s fair to say the world of affordable hi-fi has shrunk and changed dramatically over the years. Gone are the days of the What Hi-Fi? budget CD player supertest, when it was easy for us to round up ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1999, music consumption was shifting in a new direction. As home internet connections got faster, users discovered improvements that had ...

In the rare case we listen to an audio CD these days, we typically rely on off-the-shelf hardware to decode the 1s and 0s into the dulcet tones of Weird Al Yankovic for our listening pleasure. [Lukas] ...

The two-disc DVD-Audio album will offer the original 18 tracks, covering two-and-a-half hours of live performances. The audio will be mixed in both Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and six-speaker Advanced ...

Compaq Computer is putting a new spin on its digital audio players. The Houston-based company announced on Monday two new players that use discs instead of expensive flash memory cards to store songs.

some time ago, but compared to the job Hi-Def Digest did, ours is pathetic. Not only do they go into detail about what every audio format available for both HD disc formats is all about, but they go ...

Flexi discs (not “flexidiscs”) sold in their tens of millions during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and the early 1990s—before virtually disappearing from the face of the earth for a decade and a half. But, as ...

(February 14, 2024) Magnetar Audio is helping consumers establish a new love for physical media and enabling concert fans and movie buffs to reconnect with their beloved Blu-ray Disc collections with ...