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Peter Gabriel has chosen to make his new album, Scratch My Back, available as a 24-bit FLAC download exclusively through Society of Sound from March 2nd. He has always been a passionate advocate for sound quality and felt that offering a high-quality version of his album... Read more

The second batch of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums set for remastering in 5.1 Surround Sound are: Tender Prey, The Good Son and Henry’s Dream. The band pledged to re-release their entire back catalogue last summer. The first albums to be reissued were ‘From... Read more

We recently invited B&W customers to ask us  questions.  We’ve had an overwhelming response and we’ve tried to answer as many as we can. Several of the questions will be answered in depth and posted in the Lab area of SoS later on this year but... Read more

Nick Cave’s new novel, The Death of Bunny Munroe, is being released as an audiobook this week. Not so interesting as news in itself,  but it’s being released via Apple’s app store. Clearly no ordinary audio book. As well as a soundtrack composed by Mr. Cave... Read more

We at Bowers & Wilkins in the London office have a certain love affair with the retail institution that is Fopp. It may have disappeared from many city centres throughout the UK, but the central London store remains, along with a few select others. They often... Read more

This month’s album, In Session, is a collaboration between the extraordinary Mauritanian musician DabyTouré and old-school bluesman Skip McDonald. Clearly Music Club members are very discerning as we’ve had a number of people asking whether we would supply the music as 24-bit FLAC files. We’re always happy... Read more

I blogged earlier about the Deep Listening roundtable conference in New York. You can now watch it here. Chaired by Greg Calbi, the mastering engineer at legendary Sterling Sound, NY whose 70’s output alone includes classic albums by Springsteen (Born to Run), Lennon (Walls and Bridges)... Read more

Audiophiles get a bad press. Even the word conjures up images of old men in tweed, listening to LPs of train sound effects on turntables that pre-date the invention of the compact disc via valve amps and speakers the size of the average inner-city bedsit.... Read more

It appears that sound lovers aren’t taking bad sound quality lying down. Metallica fans have put up a petition to get their new album, Death Magnetic, remixed. Add your name to the 12,000 who’ve already signed up. If you care about music but not about Metallica... Read more

New technology is often blamed for ruining sound quality, with downloads getting a particularly rough ride. But now it seems the latest gadgets are striking a blow for audio purity, at least when it comes to the new Metallica album Death Magnetic. According to MusicRadar the... Read more