Streaming and vinyl may be all the rage, but there are plenty of us who have never let go of our CD collection and enjoy listening to and buying CDs to this day.What Hi-Fi?has been testing and reviewing CD players ever since the format's inception (since 1983, in fact), and many ...
As others have already noted, it is also a shame that the musician’s credits are not accessible while each track plays as they are on the Steely Dan discs. However I reserve my strongest criticism for the fact that the opportunity was not taken to include those soundtrack tracks and the ...
To return to the subject at hand, we are discussing what we’ve called a “5.1” presentation of music that was originally introduced in a two-channel rendition and at a fidelity of far lower resolution. The challenge and the opportunity to the surround engineer is pretty simple: Can the e...
The lower the frequency of the sound produced by the vibrating cone of a driver, the more apt it is to simply cause air to rush from one side of the cone to the other, rather than produce the compression waves that constitute sound. By adding a baffle around the driver, this increases...
These disadvantages are the reason we use the ordinary General Public License for many libraries. However, the Lesser license provides advantages in certain special circumstances. For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special need to encourage the widest possible use of a certain library,...
Ultimately, 'bits' are misleading because however many the DAC claims to use, any advantages are going to be lost in noise, so dynamic range is a more useful description of a DACs capabilities. Moon claims the SABRE DAC, is greater than 130dB, while the best result that can be achieved...