Results tagged “audio”

After I wrote about the Clearaudio Statement turntable and the Transrotor Argos, I thought I had exhausted the spectrum in turntables costing six-figures. Color me surprised when I recently found out about two more turntables in that league. Michael Fremer's... Read More >>

The Germans are playing a game of one-upmanship. The $150,000 Statement Turntable from Clearaudio may seem like the highest of the high end. But Transrotor, who, like Clearaudio, make some fabulously beautiful turntables, fires back with the $250,000 Argos... Read More >>

If you're an audiophile or you simply don't want less-than-CD-quality sound, you've been encoding your CDs in iTunes with the Apple Lossless Audio Codec. That is the only option in iTunes if you want CD quality sound (apart from completely... Read More >>

Fraunhofer IIS, the people who brought us MPEG-1 Layer 3, that is, the MP3, have a new codec out called HD-AAC that is part of MPEG-4. This new HD-AAC has at it's base the AAC codec from MPEG-4 that is... Read More >>

It seems there was a bit of confusion on my last post regarding lossless digital formats, so here's a clarification. Lossless is not an end to itself, nor is it an especially high standard. Lossless just means, typically, identical to... Read More >>

Nine Inch Nails today released a new album – no, not Ghosts – called The Slip. The Slip, I can only guess, refers to the pink slip they're giving the music industry. This new album is released under a Creative... Read More >>