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Spotify's HiFi mode streams music in a lossless format, delivering the full recording as it was mastered ...

People mix up the two types of audio compression all the time. Dynamic range and lossy compression are very different things. Dynamic range compression squashes soft-to-loud volume shifts. This form ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

Rogue Amoeba (makers of cool sound tools, such as Audio Hijack / Pro and Airfoil) has released Fission, a unique sound editor that allows for “Lossless” editing of compressed (mp3, AAC) audio files.

The word ‘lossless’ sounds like it describes audio with no compression used. But lossless audio compression is a thing. Here’s a quick primer. Lossless audio formats use compression algorithms to ...

In a previous article, we discussed analog audio SNR concepts. As mentioned, the dynamic range is restricted at the top by clipping (THD ≤1 percent) and at the bottom by the thermal noise combined ...

As broadcast and pro AV continue to converge around IP, audio infrastructures are moving steadily toward Dante and AES67. That shift creates a practical issue: immersive formats like Dolby Atmos and ...

In an age when source material is coming into stations in various compressed audio formats, how can facilities keep up the audio quality? Elenos Sales Director Mary Ann Seidler cautioned engineers in ...