As the names suggest, lossy compression removes some of the original information — some audio is lost — in the process of creating a smaller file. Lossless, by contrast, achieves a smaller ...

For example, all Sonos speakers support lossless audio tracks up to 24-bit/48kHz. Apple’s HomePod and HomePod mini also support lossless audio up to 24-bit/48kHz. These speakers are going to be able ...

An external DAC/amp lets you hear lossless audio without the compression of Bluetooth. ... Resampling is when the sampling frequency of the audio (let’s say 44.1kHz, for example) ...

Lossless compression is achieved through encoding techniques designed to optimize an audio file’s size without throwing anything away. Huffman coding is a basic example of this. You can think of ...

You might have gathered that ‘lossless audio’ generally represents higher quality audio than you may be used to. That’s what it’s being sold as anyway, and if you’ve spent many years listening to ...

Lossless audio in Apple Music has sample rates up to 48kHZ, or 48,000 samples per second. Hi-Res lossless audio uses even ...

Hi-res tracks have to be lossless, but the inverse is not true: CDs are considered lossless, to offer one counterintuitive example, and a small amount of the ALAC files found on Apple Music top ...

Origins of The Myth. The belief that MP3 files are inferior stems from the idea of compression. An MP3 file is smaller than a WAV file, so people assume they have less detail and a less rich sound.

There are also several different hi-res audio file formats to choose from, all of which have their own compatibility requirements. They include the popular FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and ALAC ...

Despite its lossless branding, aptX Lossless isn’t entirely compression-free. There’s still some compression at work here to bring 1.4Mbps CD-quality audio down to the 1Mbps bit-rate that aptX ...

Lossless audio can sound better than MP3s and Spotify, ... destructive form of compression. Lossless doesn’t necessarily mean hi-res audio ... for example, has so far resisted the lossless trend.