High resolution audio, a scam or a necessity?
Eleven months have quickly gone by and once again, we are in the festive season. Let me take this early opportunity to wish my readers a wonderful festive period. For tech enthusiasts like me, CES 2014 is only a few weeks away and I know you can’t wait to see what faster, thinner and more efficient ways tech companies have come up with to steal money from us. I don’t know how many of you have heard of the term High Resolution Audio (HRA) but apparently, it’s the next big thing in the audio industry. The term High Resolution Audio refers to a new audio compression technology that seeks to provide better quality audio. Without going to the nitty-gritties, the tech seeks to improve the quality of sound from our digital music players by increasing the sampling rate and consequently the bit rate of audio signals from our digital audio players. For you to better understand this, it’s good to have some background knowledge about the analog to digital conversion process. To put it s