LOS ANGELES (AP) — Its backers say it does for music lovers what ultra high-definition television has done for couch potatoes. It’s a digital format that packs nearly seven times the data found on CDs ...

But there’s been a price for portability. You are listening to your favorite music delivered only after a host of technology has diminished the resolution of the audio, by necessity, so that it can ...

Welcome to another instalment of our monthly Ask the Reader column, where we ask our readers for their input on a key topic of discussion. In this month's discussion, we want to know how you listen to ...

Sony's LDAC codec enables hi-res audio on Android phones, but you need to download the Sound Connect companion app and change ...

Neil Young was on to something when he showed David Letterman a PonoPlayer. It was 2012 and the legendary singer-songwriter was down on compressed, “lossy” MP3 audio. He wanted to create a platform ...

"We wanted to make a high resolution, high power USB DAC that we could ALWAYS take with us. Something so small and easy to use, there would never be an excuse to not have it with you. So we took a 3.5 ...

TIDAL will combine its HiFi Plus and HiFi tiers as of April 10. The benefits of the pricer HiFi Plus plan will now be available to those on the more affordable HiFi plans; the single tier will be ...

Qobuz music streaming service is being rolled out in Japan, a market ripe for expansion. Hi-Res music streaming service Qobuz has announced its entry into the Japanese streaming market. Qobuzwas ...

In the last 15 years, as digital music has slowly but surely extinguished the analog flame, the focus with digital audio has always been on enabling easy access, portability, and manageability of the ...

Onkyo Music, an online store that specialises in high-resolution audio, is now open to users in the UK, US and Germany. The Japanese firm has partnered with 7Digital to revamp its store for the new ...

(AP) It’s hard to make headlines with a portable music player these days. It’s old hat by now to carry around thousands of songs in your hip pocket, whether on an iPod or a smartphone. But there’s ...