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The Past, Present, and Future of Digital
|May 31 - The 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc is approaching and The Absolute Sound is commemorating this milestone with a special issue focused on digital. The September issue of TAS includes reviews of ...read more -
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Upcoming in The Absolute Sound
|July 5 - Our special feature on the state of digital audio (Issue 174) includes a retrospective in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc's US launch. My editorial in that issue laments ...read more -
Do Hard-Disk Drives Sound Better than CD?
|I recently received an e-mail asking me to weigh in on the controversy over whether lossless data-compression systems such as FLAC, Meridian's MLP (the basis for Dolby TrueHD), and Windows Media Audio (WMA) Lossless degrade ...read more -
Why no Blu-ray Music-only Format
|The forthcoming Sony BDP-S550 is certainly a breakthrough product that will provide a hardware platform that might spur the release of Blu-ray music titles from specialty labels. I agree that the professional SACD community (record ...read more