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A good quality DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) is one of the crucial elements when it comes to deciding the kind of audio experience you can expect from a device. And at large, the same holds true ...

Compression is the science of making data representations smaller, in order to decrease the data's bandwidth and storage requirements. Compression applications are everywhere: in computers (WinZip and ...

If double-digit compression is your goal, lossy codecs are the only way to go. Even if lossy compression artifacts exist, they might be inaudible. Song clips of similar duration from different music ...