If you buy through our links ... He is an avid record collector and streaming music enthusiast. Credentials Ty was nominated for Best New Journalist at the Australian IT Journalism awards ...

FLAC (hi-res): This lossless compression format supports hi-res sample rates, takes up about half the space of WAV, and stores metadata. It's royalty-free and is considered the preferred format for ...

Getting into hi-res audio can sometimes feel less like looking at a rabbit hole and more like staring into a swirling void – ...

FLAC is open source software that can reduce the amount of storage space needed to store digital audio signals without needing to remove information in doing so. The files read and produced by this ...

With any of the above subscriptions, you can access more than 110 million tracks in lossless, hi-res FLAC, and Dolby Atmos ... some people still like to buy music. As such, it provides subscribers ...

FiiO recently launched the DM13, a portable CD player that is a modern take on the Walkman. It’s larger than your old device, ...

Spotify is reportedly planning a “Pro” add-on worth $6 per month that will finally bring higher-quality audio streaming to ...

The Tidal Package is a fabulous one, delivering FLAC streams on some albums ... along with access to the Qobuz music store where you can buy your music with a small discount.

If you have an old phone -- or you buy a new one without ... file formats (such as FLAC) and cheap ample multi-gigabyte storage have made portable high-fidelity music a reality.

rivaling the sound quality of competitors like Tidal (which also uses FLAC) and Apple Music (which uses the comparable Apple ALAC codec). There are also more than a thousand tracks mastered in ...

so you can go beyond MP3 and enjoy hi-res FLAC files. And finally, why not own your own music collection, rather than rent it from someone else? We rounded up the top MP3 players you can buy by ...