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How Can I Get the Best Sound Quality When Streaming Tidal?

February 28, 2015 Comments Off on How Can I Get the Best Sound Quality When Streaming Tidal?

“A Your laptop’s sound card very well might detract from sound quality if it takes the CD-quality digital audio signal streamed from Tidal and converts it to analog. That’s because the digital-to-analog converters built into most laptops aren’t necessarily designed for hi-fi. If you use a digital connection interface such as HDMI, optical, USB, or Ethernet, however, the audio data will bypass the DACs in the computer’s sound card and be routed to your receiver for decoding. So, basically, you’re on the right track.”

What’s the biggest factor determining the sound of your music: Recording, mixing or mastering?

February 21, 2015 Comments Off on What’s the biggest factor determining the sound of your music: Recording, mixing or mastering?

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” When I asked McNair what are the “ingredients” of a great-sounding album, he said, “Starting with the most important, it’s the songs, the musicians, the production, the mixer, the recording engineer, and in last place, the mastering.” McNair’s resume includes credits as a producer, mixer, recording and mastering engineer”

QoBuz and the Hi-Res Audio Logo

February 13, 2015 Comments Off on QoBuz and the Hi-Res Audio Logo

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” This is a very good recording. Lots of clarity and precision. It’s well balanced and a great performance of some amazing compositions. My own personal taste tends towards less reverb and much more intimacy but this is the traditional orchestral sound.”

INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR MQA IS GROWING

February 11, 2015 Comments Off on INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR MQA IS GROWING

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“Meridian developed the first audiophile CD player, the world’s first consumer digital surround controller and the world’s first digital loudspeaker. Bob Stuart architected MLP, the lossless coding used in DVD-Audio and Blu-ray. The company’s optical disc players, DSP loudspeakers, video projectors and processors are unique in the industry, maintaining a super-quality digital signal throughout the path from the studio to the home, using advanced digital signal processing to deliver both a sweet, natural sound and smooth, crystal-sharp images with true cinematic realism.”

Naxos and OraStream Launch Classical High Resolution Streaming Service

February 6, 2015 Comments Off on Naxos and OraStream Launch Classical High Resolution Streaming Service

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” Today, Naxos and OraStream announced Classics Online HD*LL (COLHD*LL), “The first high-definition and lossless classical music streaming service that uses adaptive bit-rate streaming technology”.

Xivero MusicScope NEW

January 26, 2015 Comments Off on Xivero MusicScope NEW

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“NEW MusicScope is a music microscope to do a deep analysis of an audio track by using tools usually only available to audio engineers. It is company goal to offer the HiFi enthusiast a tool he can use to do a fast analysis on his lossless compressed audio tracks, may it be DSD, FLAC, ALAC or WAV. Review is coming up.”

The World’s First DXD Download Store

January 23, 2015 Comments Off on The World’s First DXD Download Store

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“But I’ve been in most of the best studios and listened and listened, and if you have a DSD file that you edit in DXD and then convert back to DSD, and you compare it to the original file, you can hear what you’ve lost. For that reason alone, since DXD is the format you are using when you create an SACD from DSD files, then it more than justifies listening to DXD by itself.”

Tidal review

January 23, 2015 Comments Off on Tidal review

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“We were impressed by Qobuz (handing out a five-star review) but the mobile app experience can certainly be a little buggy. There are no such issues here. Streaming music seems reliable (Tidal recommends a 2MB connection for optimum lossless streaming) and browsing tracks is fast.

CES 2015 – A New HRA Info Graphic

January 13, 2015 Comments Off on CES 2015 – A New HRA Info Graphic

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“Somewhere along the way, we lost one. It was news to me. Either I missed that phone call or email or was deliberately cut out of the loop, I’m not certain. But things have changed as it concerns the logo. And the removal of one of the “descriptors” is a move in the right direction…it doesn’t get us to where we need to be, but it is a step. And it’s not good news for Pono”