Do audio bit rates matter? With iTunes enhanced-bitrate music coming in a month, we were hoping for a vast improvement. But can anyone tell the difference between a music track encoded at 320kbit/sec, ...

Broadband wired and wireless internet connections are getting faster all the time. But in many parts of the world high-speed internet access is unavailable and/or unreliable. So researchers continue ...

With the introduction of Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless technology, Bluetooth headphone customers will finally join their wired audiophile brethren with the option to listen to lossless quality audio. The ...

The future of audio is digital and the quality produced by digital audio is of great importance to broadcasters, producers, live venues and the listening audience. Digital audio can be prone to ...

Bought a Hi-Fi system recently, and have been playing 192kb/s LAME MP3s on it. I personally am unable to tell the difference between these and the source CD tracks (limited by my hearing and/or my ...

Netflix has employed the xHE-AAC audio codec for content streamed on its Android app. The streamer has licensed the high-quality audio software from Fraunhofer IIS. One of the key features of xHE-AAC ...

MPEG-4 audio does not require a single or small set of highly efficient compression schemes but rather a complex toolbox to perform a wide range of operations from low-bit-rate speech coding to ...