What is High-Resolution Audio?
High Resolution Audio is typically an audio format that has a sampling rate of 96 KHz/ 24 bit and can reproduce very close to original sound as recorded in a studio or concert hall. With high resolution audio, listeners can experience fine details of audio like artist’s breath, subtlety, depth, pressure, expression or concert hall atmosphere. Better frequency sampling rate and high bit rate makes the playback audio very close to the original audio track while a CD recording cannot capture and playback the fine details of the original audio source. Popular high resolution audio formats are FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and DSD.
Advantages of High-Resolution Audio
The main advantage of high-resolution audio files is high fidelity sound quality over compressed audio formats. Speaking of bit-rate for example, the highest quality MP3 has a bit-rate of 320kbps, whereas a 24-bit/192kHz highresolution file is transferred at a rate of 9216kbps. Thus, 24-bit/96k or 24-bit/192kHz files replicate more closely, the sound quality that the musicians and engineers work with in the studio.
High-resolution audio tends to reveal every music nuance with startling integrity from powerful sub-bass lows to crystalline highs bringing listeners closer to the original performance.
What you need to play
A wide variety of AV receivers like Marantz NR1504, music streamers like Cambridge Audio Minx Xi and Pioneer N-50 to all-in-one music systems are capable of handling and playing high-resolution audio. Some of the headphone models that produce Hi-Res Audio are Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7 and Sony MDR Z. Several of the latest smart phones play music in 24-bit quality, including the LG G3, Sony Xperia Z3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. As of now Apple iPhones do not support Hi-Res audio and do not offer more than 16 bit audio.
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