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 ...

Digital sound is nothing more than numbers. What separates one container from another is how those numbers are packed, how much data (if any) is thrown away, and which devices understand the result.

I seem to be only able to generate .wav output files from recorded .wav input files. If I instead attempt to first pipe the audio through a media player like suggested here #162 (comment) the output ...

Boulder, Colo. — PS Audio developed what it called a first-of-its-kind phono preamp/digital converter. The $1,895-suggested NuWave Phono Converter can be used as a traditional analog phono ...

I wanted to listen to the Ed Sheeran Equals 2021 album. I played it. It worked. A dsf file ~2GB, B dsf file ~1.9GB. It makes a loud buzzing sound when playing. It plays the tracks. The sizzling noise ...

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 ...

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 ...