Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

People like the sound of compressed music, or to put it another way, people don't like music that has quiet and loud passages. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high ...

The fictional band Spinal Tap could make their instruments louder with the help of amplifiers that went up to 11. Lesser musicians must find other ways to pump up the volume. One well-established ...

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Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file. The music, a 20-second clarinet solo, is encoded in less than a ...

Audio technology company Harman International today announced software that automatically analyzes and upgrades the audio quality of all types of compressed, digitized music to restore the sound as it ...

There’s a rumor circulating, saying that compression ruins classical music. This idea is especially common among audiophiles and hardcore fans of classical music, who turn up their noses at the idea ...

In portable audio, the music might be compressed, but the sales won’t be. Sales of MP3-type headset portables, including flash- and HDD-based models, will grow at double-digit rates, while sales of ...