Essential Phone Gets MQA Streaming
June 12, 2018 Comments Off on Essential Phone Gets MQA Streaming
“In a press release announcing its partnership with Essential, MQA cited the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)’s recent “Connecting with Music” report, which found that 90 percent of consumers who subscribe to an audio streaming service use their smartphone for music listening.”
Apple Music vs YouTube Music In-Depth Comparison – Video
June 1, 2018 Comments Off on Apple Music vs YouTube Music In-Depth Comparison – Video
Audirvana Launches its Version of Audirvana Plus for Windows 10
May 16, 2018 Comments Off on Audirvana Launches its Version of Audirvana Plus for Windows 10
“Founded in 2011, Audirvana is a French company created by Damien Plisson, a well-known developer acknowledged as an expert in the audiophile community. Since its launch in 2011, Audirvana Plus for Mac has become the reference hi-fi software player for audiophiles around the world. Its sound quality and reliability have won over sound engineers, who use it in the recording studio as well as in live concerts. Audirvana has received many awards, such as the “Audio Excellence Award 2016” from the Japanese magazine Audio Accesory and the “Exceptional Product – 5 Stars Award” from iCreate magazine in September 2017.”
MQA Review
May 15, 2018 Comments Off on MQA Review
” If you’ve read some of the articles on this website or the chapter in the book, you already know that wrapping ultrasonic frequencies (20-40 kHz) beneath the audio band sounds quite reasonable but only if the original masters have meaningful amounts of ultrasonic content — they don’t. So why bother developing a complex “origami” folding scheme when the only partials being folded are noise, hiss, recording bias, and other uncorrelated signals. If you don’t start with a bona fide high-resolution recording, then MQA is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. And virtually all commercial releases regardless of period are standard resolution.”
ROON 1.5 IS HERE!
May 9, 2018 Comments Off on ROON 1.5 IS HERE!
“We’ve covered some additional new ground with MQA: Roon will not only be able to perform DSP on “unfolded” MQA content, but it will do so without destroying the MQA signalling information. This means that it’s now possible to use features like EQ, Room Correction, and Volume Leveling while still taking advantage of the rendering capabilities of your MQA DAC.”
Where to get MQA files and how to play them – Video
April 27, 2018 Comments Off on Where to get MQA files and how to play them – Video
SiriusXM 360L satellite radio meets 4G LTE streaming in the 2019 Ram 1500 – Video
April 8, 2018 Comments Off on SiriusXM 360L satellite radio meets 4G LTE streaming in the 2019 Ram 1500 – Video
NEW HIGHRESAUDIO STREAMING BY SUBSCRIPTION
April 2, 2018 Comments Off on NEW HIGHRESAUDIO STREAMING BY SUBSCRIPTION
“HIGHRESAUDIO is launching its own high- resolution 24-bit subscription streaming service in April 2018. HRA- Streaming is aimed at the music-loving music connoisseur, Hi-Fi enthusiast and customers that appreciated a high-quality sound reproduction. For the past eight years, HIGHRESAUDIO has been able to archive and make available for downloading an impressive music catalogue of very high quality and selected new recordings and analogue-to-digital remasters.”
What does 2018 hold for Music Streaming Services?
March 16, 2018 Comments Off on What does 2018 hold for Music Streaming Services?
“It won’t have escaped people’s notice that for two streaming services in particular, another option exists. Apple Music and Amazon Unlimited don’t have to make the same appeals to investors that the independent streaming services do. Neither of these organisations is wondering where their next $100 million is coming from and a different approach to the business of conquering music streaming is open to them. At this point, we move from the evaluation of stated business models which is what this article has done so far and move into the theoretical. ”
Aurender N100H Caching Network Streamer Plus X725 USB DAC / Amplifier Review
March 9, 2018 Comments Off on Aurender N100H Caching Network Streamer Plus X725 USB DAC / Amplifier Review
“I’m a sucker for the French Impressionists. No, not the painters, the composers – Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Sometimes Eric Satie is lumped into this category, but he doesn’t have enough recorded works to really be part of this group. If I would have to pick only one piece of music to represent this subgenre, though, it would be Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe. I have many recordings of this work in my collection, my favorite digital version, which also happens to be my favorite analog version, is the Living Stereo issue conducted by Charles Munch. His Boston Symphony Orchestra recorded this for RCA that was originally released in 1960. I have a Red Book CD versions ripped from the two-layer SACD and an older CD, and a DSD file of this on my hard-drives, and all of them sound incredible. I’ve read that some aren’t as enamored as I am of this recording, mostly because of the tape hiss that’s been faithfully reproduced. I suppose I’m used to it. It doesn’t bother me at all. I played both the 16-bit and DSD version through the N100H, sometimes connected to the X725 and sometimes not, and I had the same impression of their sound quality as I did when listening to the Peter Gabriel, but on this album it was amazing to hear how well the N100H was able to handle these real instruments recorded in a real space.”
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