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The Move To Make Hi-Res Audio MainstreamSony created Hi-Res audio as they have created many technologies.....but in this case they decided to pass it on to the Japanese Audio Society to set it up as a standard for the audio industry.We presented recently Sony's quest for Hi-Res audio .....guess what.....it is gathering momentum.The Consumer Electronics Industry and the record companies see High Resolution Digital Audio as an opportunity to deliver better sound quality to music listeners,and thus …

MQA - A True Revolution In Digital Audio PlaybackHaving written previously about the licensing and connection between MQA and Bluesound,we felt it was time to talk about MQA in more depth as it truly is a revolution in the reproduction of digital music.MQA stands for Master Quality Authentication and could potentially be the greatest innovation of the digital music era.And that is not said lightly.To recap,MQA is a technology that simultaneously improves sound quality whilst dramatically lowerin …

The Importance Of Music In Our LivesIt is hard to imagine your world without music.It plays such a vital place in entertaining and affecting our mood and it can provide an emotional attachment to special moments in our lives and hearing a particular song will bring back great memories.For pop music lovers,the early months of 2016 have not been good ones.It seemed we were still absorbing the news of David Bowie's death in January,when on April 21,we learned that Prince had passed away in his home …

The Distortion Of Sound - The FilmOver the last six or seven years,while we were worrying about whether DSD sounded better than high sampling rate PCM,or if a SPDIF digital interface was superior to USB,an ever expanding majority of the music-consuming public had by listening exclusively to MP3 files off their laptop and phones.To aid substantially in making a case against lossy audio compression,Harman International Industries,the company behind a number of respected brands including JBL,Infini …

Welcome Fostex Pofessional Application Headphones.We have just welcomed Fostex Professional Application Headphones to Stereophonic.Fostex is a company that not everyone is familiar with,but it has a long and famous history,being founded in 1973.Fostex,along with Tascam,pioneered affordable multitrack recording equipment and was the first to offer an eight-track reel-to-reel multitrack that used affordable 1/4 inch tape.It competes with Tascam and Yamaha with a full line of products for the …