Now that Spotify has finally got on board, high-resolution audio is well and truly mainstream. After eight long years of dithering and broken promises, the Swedish service eventually launched Spotify ...

Our primer on Hi-Res Audio for those who think Spotify and the Apple iPod raised the bar for music playback. In response, Hi-Res Audio (or high resolution audio) may have been a form of pushback ...

CONSUMER REPORTS - High-definition video has taken over TVs, phones and tablets. But sound quality is worse than it was 10 or 15 years ago. New hi-resolution audio promises to change all that.

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We’ve come a long way since the earliest days of home audio, and a number of major leaps have been made: the transition from mono to stereo in the 1960s; moving from vacuum tubes to solid-state ...

To listen to Hi-Res audio on Windows, you’ll need compatible audio files (like FLAC or DSD), a Hi-Res-capable output device (preferably wired), updated audio drivers, and a player like AIMP or ...