Imagine a typical rural vista. Rolling hills, the occasional shrub or hedgerow breaking up the undulating array of ploughed and furrowed fields, a healthy handful of docile white sheep dotting the ...

When we talk about resolution in the context of screens, we talk about things like how many pixels per inch there are, which determines how many individual colors there are and the amount of detail ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Last month, Austrian Audio announced its new budget ...

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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Austrian Audio is a relatively new brand founded by some ...

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 ...

A lossless audio stream might not actually be lossless by the time it reaches your ears. Don't pay extra for high-res music streaming until you read this. I've been a contributing editor for PCMag ...

This story is part of our end-of-year series This Year in Gear rounding up the most notable releases of 2022. For more stories like this, click here. 2022 was a pretty momentous year for audio gear.