High-res audio products may have only been available in Japan for one year, but they already account for over a fifth of Sony's audio sales in Japan, the company says. "It's closer to the original recording and technically superior to a CD," said Masanori Sugiyama, a Sony audio developer. This means that more musical detail is captured, resulting in a far richer sound-provided the player is able to handle the higher quality, which most smartphones today cannot. They give you a true experience of listening to music in high-res audio format. These headphones come with a balanced armature frequency diving technology, which gives you optimal sound clarity. In contrast, high-res digital music has a sampling frequency-the amount of times every second that the data is encoded-around four times that of a CD. Uiisii905 comes with a dynamic driver who is responsible for giving you every little detail of the frequency. Now the firm wants to "push the accelerator on the high-res product line", he said.Īudio purists have long complained that digitised music has to be compressed so much to fit into the standard mp3 file format that it sounds far removed from how the musician or studio engineer intended.Ī lot of data is lost in the compression, especially when compared with analogue formats like the vinyl record-which is enjoying a revival despite the ubiquity of music on smartphones. "It's exactly one year since we put the first high-resolution audio players on the market and they have been very popular," Sony's head of audio Ichiro Takagi told journalists last week. The Japanese tech giant, which recently warned it was expecting a $2.14 billion annual loss this year, is betting that music of superior quality to compact discs is about to leave the niche world of audiophiles and go mainstream.
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