Do audio bit rates matter? With iTunes enhanced-bitrate music coming in a month, we were hoping for a vast improvement. But can anyone tell the difference between a music track encoded at 320kbit/sec, ...

You’re looking to dive into the world of audiophilia, and you’re instantly bombarded with terms that you don’t know. Hey, it happens to all of us! The best thing to do is to start slow and get your ...

The future of audio is digital and the quality produced by digital audio is of great importance to broadcasters, producers, live venues and the listening audience. Digital audio can be prone to ...

(2) The speed that digital audio and video files are encoded (compressed), measured in kilobits (Kb) and megabits (Mb) per second. For example, MP3 audio files can be created with bit rates from 16 ...

Broadband wired and wireless internet connections are getting faster all the time. But in many parts of the world high-speed internet access is unavailable and/or unreliable. So researchers continue ...

When the ATSC rules were first published in 1995, the maximum data rate for a so-called Complete Main (CM) program that was Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoded was set at 384 kbps by standard A/53. The ...

Neural Audio and VoiceAge are promoting the Neural-optimized encoder for AMR-WB+, which is a processing product for Internet service providers and mobile operators. VoiceAge is a supplier of speech ...

Bought a Hi-Fi system recently, and have been playing 192kb/s LAME MP3s on it. I personally am unable to tell the difference between these and the source CD tracks (limited by my hearing and/or my ...

The streaming wars continue to heat up. As Wayde discussed in his recent article: AT&T, Comcast and Disney Prepare to Destroy Netflix, Netflix has never faced as much competition as it will over the ...