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Do we need another digital music format?

Posted on Tuesday, 11 August 2009    Comments (8)

According to What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision the music industry is getting together to launch another new digital music format. The new downloadable format - currently called CMX - will provide users with more than just music. It will also offer lyrics, artwork and other bonus goodies.
There doesn’t appear to be any mention of sound [...]

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How do you play your 24-bit FLAC files?

Posted on Thursday, 6 August 2009    Comments (284)

The 24-bit FLAC files we offer full members of Society of Sound are proving incredibly popular. They are close to being the most popular of the three formats we offer, which is both reassuring, and a little bit surprising. Reassuring because we feel that they offer the best sound quality possible, and we know that [...]

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Is Blu-Ray the saviour of high-quality stereo?

Posted on Wednesday, 19 November 2008    Comments (5)

It’s been known for a while that Neil Young’s long-awaited Archives is going to be released on Blu-ray. But now that Amazon in the US is taking pre-release orders it got us thinking about Blu-ray as an audio format. There’s very little music currently available on the new format, and much of that is surround [...]

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