Music service Tidal this week begins providing MQA audio to subscribers, promising a “studio-quality” sound streaming experience for subscribers to its Tidal HiFi package. The MQA, or Master Quality Authenticated, experience will be available only via desktop app, to those who pay $19.99 a month for Tidal HiFi. The MQA streams will be 96 kHz/24 bit, about double the standard Tidal HiFi […]
For the audiophile who has everything, and wants more, theMoon 888 monoblock amplifier from Simaudio is just the ticket. The $118,888-a-pair power source debited at the 2017 CES this week, boasting the same manufacturing process used for high-performance racing engines. Monoblock amps have amplification for a single channel, so one per speaker is required. Hefty in more than […]
She survived marriage to Tommy Mottola, she’ll live through this. “Mariah Carey’s technical challenge during the Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show on ABC took on a life of its own, garnering widespread social media mockery, including jokes that her circuitry was “hacked by the Russians.” Rushin’ to judgment, maybe… It remains unclear exactly what happened, but […]
