How to get top-quality sound for less
High resolution audio has long been the ultimate goal for audio purist devotees, most of whom initially seemed willing to spend a small fortune for the privilege of better-than-CD-quality tunes either at home or on the go.
You might be surprised to learn there’s no universal standard. So, even though music streaming services and tech companies talk about high-res audio all the time these days, there’s no conclusive, set-in-stone agreement about what it is. Clean the window and you have the CD version, there’s much greater detail and clarity. Open the window and you’ve got the hi-res version. Your eyes can pick out all of the details you didn’t realise were missing when the window was shut. Think of the tree branches you might now be able to pick out as the leading edges of musical notes. Yes, it's a stretch, butThere’s more to it, but describing the experience in relation to seeing it tends to give people a better idea of what to expect.
Although there are plenty of portable DACs available, if you want to try high-res audio on the cheap we’d recommend the from audio brand iFi. It measures the size of a USB stick and connects to your Mac, PC or smartphone via USB-C with a 3.5mm headphone input at the other end. This is why they’re what’s called Hi-Res certified. So even though you could, technically, use a DAC and listen to high-res files with any old headphones to meet certified hi-res status a speaker or headphone need to be capable of reproducing frequencies up to 40 kHz or above – this is well above the conventional frequency response of up to 20 kHz. Most products with this certification also need to be able to convert 24 bit/96 kHz signals from digital files into analogue audio.
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