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Straight from Numero Group’s blog. Beat this for record collecting! Read more

Excellent graphic from NY Times on the sales life of the different music formats from 1973 to 2008. Read more

It’s been impossible to avoid the news of the Beatles remasters and much debate has ensued within the office. Primarily, why the mono boxset has less content, no DVD, but costs £30 pounds more than the stereo boxset and which individual albums would we be... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

Demonstrating the complete journey from performing through recording to playback, Computer Audiophile have announced their inaugural Computer Audiophile Symposium taking place at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California. With representatives from Meridian-Sooloos amongst others, the symposium will focus on getting the best high quality playback for your home.... Read more

This month heralds one of the most unlikely anniversaries – the 60th birthday of the 7” single. With focus firmly on the rise of digital sales and fall of CD sales, this much loved vinyl format is making a stealthy comeback. West London factory Portalspace (previously... Read more

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... Read more