People like the sound of compressed music, or to put it another way, people don't like music that has quiet and loud passages. First things first, I’m referring to soft-to-loud dynamic range ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RECORDING WEEK 2025: Most people with an interest in music production or recording probably have at least a loose idea of what ...

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 ...

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 ...

You see them everywhere. Apple's iPod is now synonymous in people's minds with portable music. Twenty years ago, it was the Walkman that was state-of-the-art for portability. Twenty years before that ...

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 ...

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 ...