It’s very likely you’ll have seen the term ‘lossless audio’ bandied around in the music space in recent years, but is it ...

Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...

Spotify announced a new Lossless Listening feature, which uses audio files that are compressed to retain all of songs' ...

Spotify's Lossless listening allows users to play tracks at up to 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC, the company said, which refers to a ...

I use a SoundBlaster Play! 3 to record from an external analog (mono) audio source. This interface can sample in 24 bits at 48kHz. On Mac this is configured via the "Audio MIDI Setup" program. I don't ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

As you probably know, Apple Music offers various lossless audio formats. Some are 16-bit/44.1 kHz, others are 24-bit/192 kHz, etc. etc. (Whether "high-res" has any benefits is another story, I don't ...

We demystify the most common Bluetooth codecs and explain why they matter for audio quality. I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from ...

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